[Chimera-users] Maximum volume size

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Svetla,

  Chimera is correctly handling your 880x880x880 map.  But by default Chimera displays only a single plane of very large maps, because the most common case of this is with tomograms where a single plane display is usually what you want.  When it does this the Volume Viewer dialog shows a "Planes" slider in the dialog, and below that is a button "All" that will show all planes.

  If you want Chimera to always show the full map, use Volume Viewer menu entry Features / Data Display Options, and click off "Show plane when data larger than N Mvoxels", and then use Features / Save Default Dialog Settings so it will use that setting in all future uses of Chimera.

	Tom


On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:54 AM, "Stoilova-McPhie, Svetla"  wrote:

> Dear Tom,
> 
> Are there any limitation for the size of 3D map/volume the Volume viewer can visualize?
> 
> We tried a 880x880x880 voxels map generated with spider and it comes out as a 2D map: 880x880x1.
> WE triple checked and the volume file dimensions are indeed 880x880x880 and can be visualized as a 3D volume in the EMAN2 viewer.
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Svetla Stoilova-McPhie, PhD
> Assistant Professor,
> Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
> Scientist, Sealy Centre for Structural Biology
> and Molecular Biophysics
> University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
> 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-0620