[chimerax-users] focus and set pivot functions

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Antón,
ChimeraX menu "Actions... View" is meant to be the same as Chimera's Focus, and as far as I know "Actions... Set Pivot" should also be the same: change center of rotation to a fixed point that is the center of the selected items (if there is a selection).

Actions menu:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/menu.html#actions>

There might be slight differences of how the pivot center is calculated, but I wouldn't expect it to be noticeable.  Can you say more about why you think it is different?

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 Dec 19, 2021, at 1:29 PM, Antón Vila-Sanjurjo via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have used the old Chimera quite a bit and I'm trying to get used to ChimeraX. There are a couple of tools that I found very useful in the old chimera: "focus" and "set pivot". Both were under the "Actions" menu and, with large structures like the ribosome, these two tools allowed me to quickly inspect any residues that were selected with any other tools. "Focus" is not there anymore and while "set pivot" is, it doesn´t seem to work as it used to. I wonder if these tools, in their old flavors, are still available in ChimeraX.
> best,
> Antón