[chimerax-users] view saves/move commands

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Krishnan,
You have to use "view name" to save each view that you want, and then after that,  save a session file.  Then later you open (restore) the session from file, and it will have your saved views remembered in it.

It can be very difficult to figure out "move" commands to get to the exact positions/orientations that you want -- really, saving/restoring the positions with the "view"  command is much, much easier.  I have done it with several "move" and "turn" commands, but it is an iterative process of playing the commands over and over and then adding/modifying commands as needed to attain the position that you want.

<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/movies.html>
<https://rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/commands/view.html#name>

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 Sep 26, 2022, at 6:59 AM, Krishnan Raman via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> I tried to play a morph including  a flyin of a ligand. It worked fine exceopt for the fly-in and out part
> The session file did not save the views with ligand away and ligand in the active site.
> Is there a way around it?
>  
> How do  I estimate a the move coordinates for a ligand to position it where I want it using move command?
> Thanks again for all the quick and timely help for all my queries.
>  
> Krishnan Raman 
> Executive Director, Structural Biology
> BioCryst Pharmaceuticals