[chimerax-users] Recreating views

[Martin Montgomery]

Thanks for the info and discussion, Everyone.  Very useful.

Cheers

MGM



> On 21 May 2020, at 18:05, Tristan Croll <tic20 at CAM.AC.UK> wrote:
> 
> 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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