[Chimera-users] measuring distances

[Ryan Pavlovicz]

Thanks, Elaine!

Your recommendation did the trick.

-ryan


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
> At some point you probably set the distance display to show one decimal
> place, from the default of 3 places.  Chimera automatically uses the same
> number of places when reporting the value to the Reply Log.  You can change
> the number of decimal places in the Distances tool (Tools… Structure
> Analysis… Distances).  I believe it automatically saves the value in your
> preferences file when you change it, i.e. it is remembered for subsequent
> uses of Chimera.
>
> <
> http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/structuremeas/structuremeas.html#distances
> >
>
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> ----------
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
>
>
> On Nov 17, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Ryan Pavlovicz <pavlovicz.7 at osu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to measure the distance between two atoms from many
> different PDB structures using a python script.
> >
> > Using a command like:
> >
> > chimera.runCommand('distance #0:1 at C1 #0:1 at C2')
> >
> > will correctly output the distance within a tenth of an angstrom,
> however, i would like to output a more accurate measurement (more decimal
> places). Is there a way to do this when using chimera within a python
> script?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > ryan
>
>
>
>
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