[Chimera-users] choose the rotation center

[Yanhe Zhao]

Dear Elaine,

Thanks a lot for your help. It works.

Thanks and cheers,
Yanhe

Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> 于2022年2月1日周二 15:18写道：

> Hi Yanhe,
> easy question first (2) Yes
>
> As for (1), if you just want to use the position of some atom (or
> approximate center of some group of atoms), you don't need to figure it out
> and then enter numbers in the dialog. Instead you can just either
>
> (A) select the atom(s) and use the menu: Actions... Set Pivot
> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/menu.html#actpivot>
>
> - OR -
>
> (B) use the "cofr" command
> <https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/midas/cofr.html>
>
> ...and specify one or more atoms, for example
>
> cofr #1:50.A at CA
> cofr #1:50.A
> cofr sel
>
> ...where "sel" means currently selected atoms.  However, if you have
> calculated X,Y,Z that you want as the center using some other method you
> can also specify them with the "cofr" command:
>
> cofr 5.5,14.2,15.0
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
>
> >
> > From: Yanhe Zhao <yanhezhao1990 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: choose the rotation center
> > Date: February 1, 2022 at 1:02:12 PM PST
> > To: chimera-users-owner at cgl.ucsf.edu
> >
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I want to fixed the center for my rotation but have two questions here:
> > 1, how I easily read out the xyz coordinate of the point I want to use
> as center?
> > 2, as attached, what the xyz sequence here, xyz from top to bottom?
> >
> > Thanks and appreciate for your help!
> > Yanhe
> > <Screenshot from 2022-02-01 14-53-52.png>
>
>
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