[chimerax-users] Unit cell orientations

[Tristan Croll]

If it helps, the Clipper plugin adds a command “clipper symmetry #{model number} that will draw the unit cell edges and all symmetry axes for a given model. There’s nothing built in to automatically align the view parallel to an axis, but it will at least give you something to manually align against.

> On 4 Jun 2021, at 18:50, Elaine Meng via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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>> On Jun 4, 2021, at 10:39 AM, Silva, Chinthaka Mahesh <silva228 at llnl.gov> wrote:
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>> Hi Elaine, 
>> Is it possible to orient a unit cell along different axes in ChimeraX? I tried using ‘Unit cell’ option, but not sure if this is the correct place to do it. 
>> Thanks!
>> -chinthaka
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> Hi Chinthaka,
> (CC to chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu ... please use that address for ChimeraX questions)
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> Sorry, I don't understand the question.  You can build the unit cell or a block of multiple unit cells with the Unit Cell tool:
> <https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tools/unitcell.html>
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> The axes of the unit cell are defined in the data... it is not something that you control.  Of course, you can rotate it after you build it.
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> Elaine
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> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
> UCSF Chimera(X) team
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
> University of California, San Francisco
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