[Chimera-users] Question about displaying x-ray ribbon.

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Jianfeng,
You can specify width/height of ribbon using Ribbon Style Editor (in menu under Tools... Depiction), the Scaling section.  Optionally, you can save the "scaling" so it will be easy to apply the same dimensions later with the ribscale command. For example, if you had named your scaling "plump": 

ribscale plump

Ribbon Style Editor:
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/ribbonstyle/ribbonstyle.html>

"ribscale" command:
<http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/ribscale.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

On Dec 11, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Jianfeng Lin wrote:

> Hi Chimera Team,
> Is it possible to make the ribbon of PDB crystal structure plumper in Chimera. I wonder it because the ribbon of interested crystal structure looks slim (in flat, edged, or rounded mode), and leaves much empty space when I fit it into my low resolution cryo-ET volume. 
> Thank you very much in advance!
> Jianfeng