[Chimera-users] display floating XYZ axes

[Pranav Shah]

thanks Elaine!
That helps.

Cheers,
Pranav
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Pranav Shah
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:

> Hi Pranav,
> There isn’t a feature to show the axes automatically, but you can open
> this file in Chimera:
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/XYZ-axes.bild>
>
> This “XYZ-axes.bild” file is a short plain-text file describing 3D
> objects, in this case, 3 solid arrows pointing along the axes.  See the
> comments in the file for which color is which axis. The file is just one of
> the examples in the BILD format description:
> <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/bild.html>
>
> You can edit the scale value to make the arrows larger, etc.
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> > On Jul 25, 2018, at 3:10 PM, Pranav Shah <pranav_shah at hms.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Chimera Users and Devs,
> >
> > Is there a possibility to display the XYZ axes a la coot in chimera, so
> that one can keep a track of the direction of the views in the window?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pranav
>
>
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