<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Sergio,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> To make ChimeraX rotate each displayed model about its own center you use the "rotate independent" mouse mode. The tile command enables that mode. You can enable it after loading a session with command</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mouse left "rotate independent"</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Loading a session file does not restore the mouse modes to what they were when you saved the session. Maybe it should. In this case it would be helpful but if you were using some other special purpose mouse mode I suspect you usually don't want the session file to remember that. I've made a feature request to consider saving mouse modes in session files.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/8067#ticket" class="">https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/ticket/8067#ticket</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We'll add to the tile command documentation the above command which reenables the independent center of rotation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> The tile command has an option to control the spacing between models called spacingFactor. If you type command "usage tile" it will show you all the options</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="cxcmd" style="font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div class="cxcmd_as_cmd" style="display: inline;"><a href="cxcmd:usage tile" class="">usage tile</a></div></div><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""><a href="help:user/commands/tile.html" class="">tile</a></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""> [</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""><a href="help:user/commands/atomspec.html" class="">models</a></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">] </span><nobr style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">[<b class="">columns</b> <i class="">an integer</i>]</nobr><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""> </span><nobr style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">[<b class="">spacingFactor</b> <i class="">a number</i>]</nobr><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""> </span><nobr style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">[<b class="">viewAll</b> <i class="">true or false</i>]</nobr><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""> </span><nobr style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">[<b class="">independentRotation</b> <i class="">true or false</i>]</nobr><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""> — </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">tile models onto grid</i></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">and the command "help tile" will show the tile documentation that says the default spacing is 1.3. So to make closer spacing you could use</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tile spacing 0.8.</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">The optimal spacing unfortunately depends on the shapes of your models because the models have different extents along different axes.</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tom</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 22, 2022, at 9:02 AM, Hassan, Sergio (NIH/NIAID) [E] via ChimeraX-users <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="x_elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hello, </span></div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="x_elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I recently requested via Phil Cruz the 'tile' command, which I learned it was recently introduced. I have been using it successfully. However, there are two points I would like to bring to your attention (I asked Phil to ask you, but not sure he reached out)</span></div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="elementToProof" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="x_elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) when a session is saved as .cxs and I quit the program, after opening it again, the most important feature of the 'tile' command (rotations around each own axis) is lost. The tile distribution is still there, but now the entire thing rotates around a common axis. I need to apply 'tile' again to make it work, but this resets all the modifications I made in the saved session (these modifications include those in point 2 below).</span><div class="x_elementToProof" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class="ContentPasted0"></div><div class="x_elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) any chance to add an argument to the 'tile' command so that the default spatial distribution, which assigns a 'distance' between near neighbors, can be adjusted with, say, 'zoom in" or "zoom out" or crowd in/out? I noticed the default puts each panel too far away from its neighbors for my taste, so I need to "move" them to make them look closer to one another.</div><div class="x_elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="x_elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">thanks</div><div class="x_elementToProof ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">s</div><span class="x_elementToProof" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></div><div class="elementToProof" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div id="Signature" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font size="2" face="Tahoma" class="">_____________________________________<br class=""></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><font size="2" face="Tahoma" class="">Sergio A. 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