[chimerax-users] Unit cell box

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Diego,
Sounds like you need to get a newer version of ChimeraX.  With questions like this, you should say what version you are using (or first try getting a new version in case what you have is old).

Command "unitcell outline" works for me in recent builds,
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/unitcell.html>

... and the Change Log says that this command was added in March 2021, so you need ChimeraX production release 1.2 or newer.
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/trac/ChimeraX/wiki/ChangeLog>

We just put a release candidate for version 1.3 on the download page, so you might want to try that one instead for even more features!

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 Oct 26, 2021, at 7:35 AM, Diego Sebastian Ferrero via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear all, 
> I am trying to make a figure using ChimeraX to show the contents of the unit cell in one protein structure. I would like to show the cell box with the asymmetric unit (similar to that box obtained in chimera using “Tools>Higher Order Structure>Crystal Contacts” ) but ChimeraX apparently doesn’t recognize the command returning the following message in the log window: 
> 
> unitcell outline
> Unknown command: unitcell 
> 
> What I’m doing wrong? Is it the right command to show the box? 
> Thanks in advance, 
> Diego