[chimerax-users] activate model selectively

[Elaine Meng]

Dear Gabor,
It’s a reasonable question!  To do this in ChimeraX isn’t exactly the same as in Chimera, but similar…

For moving by hand:
There is a mouse mode to move only the model(s) with some part selected.  For example, if you click the icon in the "mouse-modes for right button” toolbar (default location down the left side of the ChimeraX window) that looks like a selected water molecule with a horizontal arrow below it, then the right mouse button will move only model(s) with some part selected.  The right-button mouse-mode icons are described here:
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/mousemodes.html>

A touchpad or single-button mouse can be used with modifier keys to emulate middle and right mouse buttons. On a Mac, these are alt and command, respectively.

You can also assign a different button (left or middle) to this function if you prefer, using the “mousemode” command:
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/mousemode.html>

For moving with commands:
The commands “move” “turn” and “roll” have a “models” option for specifying the model(s) to move, e.g.
<http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/turn.html>

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


> On Nov 29, 2017, at 2:10 AM, Gabor PAPAI <papai at igbmc.fr> wrote:
> 
> Dear ChimeraX developers,
> 
> I have a very naive question: how can I activate models selectively, like in Chimera? I would like to superimpose a density map with a pdb, but I don’t find how I can only activate and move the pdb.
> Thank you in advance for your help!
> 
> Best regards,
> Gabor