[chimerax-users] Wireframe option

[Silva, Chinthaka Mahesh]

Hi Elaine,

Sorry about using the wrong email address. Yes, I could make the sticks thinner by using ' size stickRadius 0.05'. Do you also have it built-in, so that I don’t have to remember the command?

Thanks!
-chinthaka  

-----Original Message-----
From: Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> 
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2021 1:09 PM
To: Silva, Chinthaka Mahesh <silva228 at llnl.gov>
Cc: ChimeraX Users Help <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Wireframe option

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://urldefense.us/v3/__https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/preset.html__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!mdu1vVLG-qDGajgUHWVJJkIA9e_Fhmpgc-DVuIwax42UeWL9MfPOH0xxD1QB4Ku6g7E$ > <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/show.html__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!mdu1vVLG-qDGajgUHWVJJkIA9e_Fhmpgc-DVuIwax42UeWL9MfPOH0xxD1QBHhNSudk$ > <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/size.html__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!mdu1vVLG-qDGajgUHWVJJkIA9e_Fhmpgc-DVuIwax42UeWL9MfPOH0xxD1QB_UzGNlo$ > <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/style.html__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!mdu1vVLG-qDGajgUHWVJJkIA9e_Fhmpgc-DVuIwax42UeWL9MfPOH0xxD1QB7HTsNuA$ >

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