[chimerax-users] Copy/pasting

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Dmitry,
I'm guessing you mean parts of an atomic model?  It is more complicated than a text document because there is more underlying data in addition to how it looks at the moment (what is displayed, in what style, color, etc.).  So there is not anything as simple as copy/paste.

Chimera has an "mcopy" command that copied settings like display bits and styles from one model to another, but did not make a new model.  ChimeraX does not have this "mcopy" command.

ChimeraX (as well as Chimera) has a "combine" command that can be used to make an additional copy of an existing atomic model, or combine multiple atomic models into a new single model. Combine copies the underlying data, namely the atomic coordinates, and may not retain their display settings at the time (there may be some attempt to keep the style but it may not be complete).
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/combine.html>

So you would need to open all of the atomic models that you need to use parts from, delete parts (sets of atoms) that you don't want, and copy/combine as needed.  Then you may still need to adjust display/style as desired.

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 Jul 12, 2022, at 1:50 AM, Dmitry Semchonok via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> In case I would like to copy/paste the piece of a model - what is the correct way to do that?
> Thank you
> Kind regards,
> Dmitry