[chimerax-users] cuboid eraser?

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Travis,
A related possibility is to make surfaces of other shapes with the "shape" command and then use them to mask the volume using "volume mask":

<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/shape.html>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/volume.html#mask>

However, the shapes are all curved except icosahedron and the 2D ones (triangle, rectangle); I don't know how usable these three are in conjunction with "volume mask."

I hope this helps,
Elaine
-----
Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Sep 14, 2022, at 10:28 AM, Walton, Travis Steven via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Greetings everyone,
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to change the shape of the eraser tool for manually deleting map densities. By default, it is a circle, but a flat surface could be really useful in many circumstances.
> 
> Thanks,
> Travis