[chimerax-users] keeping slice plane in same location?

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Edoardo,
I tried to change the subject line appropriately.  I'm not sure I understand your question.

I'm guessing you are moving the slice plane through the map, which itself is not moving -- but  you want to make it look like the slice plane is staying in the same place and the map is moving instead?  

If you are using the "planes" option of volume (or per-model clipping), you could try moving the map in the opposite direction at the same time, e.g. something like this since my example map has 236 Z-planes spaced 1.25 apart:

volume #1 planes z,1,236,1; move z -1.25 236 coord #1 mod #1; wait 236

If you are using global clipping, you could try moving the map instead of moving the plane.

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 Aug 1, 2022, at 5:45 AM, Edoardo D Imprima <edoardo.dimprima at embl.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Elaine,
> 
> Thanks for your help. I have another related question: when slicing through a volume along one axis I noticed that the displayed plane moves away from the observer both in “box” and in “plane” view. How can keep the displayed plane always in front? Is there something I can use to view in “orient” mode always active?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Edoardo