[chimerax-users] Recreating views

[Tristan Croll]

Not sure how my previous reply went to ChimeraX-bugs - sorry about that!

One good reason for using "view matrix" and applying a script to 
regenerate the scene rather than simply saving a session is that for 
experimentalists the model itself might change - that is, the figure is 
made, then an error is picked up in the model and it's re-refined, so 
the figure needs to be regenerated from a new file.

On 2020-05-21 17:51, Elaine Meng wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> Yes, in ChimeraX the way to do this is with named views.  You can have
> several different named views in a single session file.  We do not
> have saveable "scenes" (changes in display, color etc.) yet, just the
> positioning part, the views.  So if there were lots of display changes
> between your figures it would be better to save separate sessions.  If
> the main difference between figures is positioning (or very simple
> display changes like hiding one model), then you could consider saving
> multiple views in the same session file.
> 
> <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/view.html#name>
> <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/save.html#session>
> 
> Another thing you may be interested in is reporting and applying
> matrices, but to me that just seems like a more difficult way to
> accomplish the same thing as using named views.
> 
> <http://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/view.html#matrix>
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Elaine
> -----
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
> 
> 
>> On May 20, 2020, at 12:41 AM, Martin Montgomery 
>> <mgm at mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I have a session file that contains everything I need to make figures 
>> for a paper.  With pymol, I saved the get_view matrix in a text file 
>> for each view which meant that with one session file I could easily 
>> recreate the views if I needed to go back and tweak a figure.  In 
>> ChimeraX, the closest way that I found to replicate this was to use 
>> named views.  Am happy to supply a session file if it helps also happy 
>> to be educated if there is a better way of doing this, especially as 
>> now the ChimeraX session files can get rather large.
>> Cheers
>> MGM
> 
> 
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