[chimerax-users] Wireframe option

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Chinthaka,
This chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu address is the one to use for asking questions about ChimeraX.

ChimeraX does not have wireframe-style display of atomic structures, but you can show all atoms/bonds (or any subset of them) as sticks and make the sticks as thin as you want.  For example, commands:

preset sticks
hide solvent
size stickRadius 0.1

...or instead of "preset sticks" you could use "style stick"

See help for these commands:
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/preset.html>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/show.html>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/size.html>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/style.html>

You can also do these things with the menu or Toolbar icons, it would just take a lot more typing to explain.

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

> From: "Silva, Chinthaka Mahesh" <silva228 at llnl.gov>
> Subject: Wireframe option
> Date: May 24, 2021 at 12:38:13 PM PDT
> 
> Hello,
>  
> Can you tell me how to draw pdb models using the ‘wireframe’ mode?
>  
> Thanks!
> -chinthaka