[chimerax-users] view and the center of mass of the selection

[Elaine Meng]

Just look at the help for the "turn" command... it has a "center" option that lets you specify the center of rotation to use during the turn.  The "center" can be given in several ways, including as x,y,z.

<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/turn.html>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/pointspec.html#point>

Best,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Jan 18, 2022, at 3:28 AM, Enrico Martinez via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear ChimeraX users!
> I am using view command to center the camera on the ligand
> an then, to rotate th whole system to the desired position:
> view #1.1 & ligand orient clip false; turn z 90; turn y 45; turn x
> -90; turn x 77
> may I rather center the camera on the center of mass of the ligand
> calculated using
> measure center ligand
> If so, how may I combine the both commands together?
> Thank you in advance!
> Enrico