[chimerax-users] Unit cell box

Diego Sebastian Ferrero dfecri at ibmb.csic.es
Wed Oct 27 22:44:41 PDT 2021


Thanks Elaine, 

your are right, my version was not updated. I have installed version 1.3 and everything is working fine. Thanks!

Diego 

> El 26 oct 2021, a las 17:41, Elaine Meng <meng at cgl.ucsf.edu> escribió:
> 
> 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
> -----
> 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 
> 




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