[chimerax-users] Useful tools ideas/requests

[Shayne Quinn]

Hello,
I have been using ChimeraX for a few years now for multidimensional cell
bio-imaging and cannot thank the team and developers enough for such an
amazing program. I am not sure where to ask for other useful tools so I am
starting here. These may already exist but I was unsuccessful in finding
them in the user guide so my apologies if I missed them.

1) Is there an option to color the different axis for the 'showOutlineBox'
feature for volumes?
     For example box lines in x-blue, y-green and z-red to help keep
orientation
     (I have included a mock version in the attachment)

2) I work specifically with Lattice Light Sheet Data which requires our 3D
cells to be placed on glass coverslip that do not show up in the captured
data but are useful for referencing orientation. Is there a feature in
place already that would allow me to create a mock coverslip.
     So far I resorted to importing a throwaway volume (Volume 4 in
attachment) and made the threshold for a surface ~0, set it to grey, and
made it fill the bottom 5 pixels or so, shown in the attachment.

3) Is there a time stamp feature similar to the scale bar function that has
already been implemented?

Thank you so much for all the time and effort that has been put in and for
creating such an amazing visualization tool!

Cheers,
Shayne Quinn
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