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Icons in the Markers tab of the
Toolbar
(along with those in the Right Mouse tab)
allow reassigning the function or “mouse mode” of:
(On Windows or Linux, right-click elsewhere in the ChimeraX interface raises
a context menu.)
The icon for the current right-mouse assignment is highlighted
in the Toolbar.
A specific mouse button can only be assigned one function at a time.
With the related
mousemode command,
functions can be assigned to all mouse buttons (not just the right)
and to scrolling, alone and in combination with modifier keys.
See also:
vr button,
Trackpad preferences
Clicking any of the icons in the Markers tab shows the
Marker Placement tool,
if not already shown.
mark maximum
add marker at the nearest local maximum in
volume data
above the
threshold
along the line of sight
mark plane
add marker in single-plane
volume display
mark surface
add marker at the nearest surface point along the line of sight
mark center
add marker at the geometric center of the clicked surface blob,
ignoring other blobs
mark point
Place marker at the tip of the hand-controller cone
in
virtual reality
link markers
select and link
successively clicked markers
move markers
drag marker to reposition
resize markers
drag to adjust marker/link radii
delete markers
delete markers and links
UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics /
December 2019