[chimerax-users] C-alphas rendered as dots

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Pranav,
We'll look into it.  I made a bug-report ticket and put you on the notification list.

In the meanwhile, try command:

style sphere

<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/style.html>

(or click the sphere-style icon in the Home or Molecule Display tabs)

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

> On Aug 2, 2021, at 7:15 AM, Pranav Shah via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Team,
> 
> I am working with a huge model (and a correspondingly huge map), which
> makes the handling on my GPU accelerated desktop an agonisingly
> frustrating experience. In order to speed up simple (rigid-body)
> fitting of the map and model, I decided to use the -C-alpha trace of
> the pdb. However, the pdb gets rendered as a bunch of disconnected
> dots whereas the same pdb in Chimera is rendered correctly with all
> things. Is this a normal behaviour for ChimeraX? I could use Chimera,
> but I prefer the way ChiemraX handles large maps as compared to
> Chimera. In the absence of a quick fix, would there be a way to
> increase the size of the atoms?
> 
> Best,
> Pranav