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The 

Manage Views

 panel contains tools for all view operations. You can open this panel by

choosing 

View 

→

 Manage Views

, or clicking the 

Manage views

 button on the 

Views

 toolbar.

Figure 4.2. The Manage Views panel.

To save a named view, choose 

View 

→

 Save View 

or click the 

Save view

 button on the 

Views

toolbar: 

Next 

Apply the next view in the list of saved views to the Workspace. 

Menu equivalent: 

View 

→

 Restore View 

→

 Next

.

View 1 

Apply the first saved view to the Workspace. The other four numbered buttons apply the spec-

ified view number. These buttons are always assigned to the first five views listed in the 

Man-

age Views

 panel. Buttons that do not have a corresponding view are not available.

Menu equivalent: 

View 

→

 Restore View 

→

 View

N.

Manage 

Manage the saved views. Opens the 

Manage Views

 panel, in which you can select views to 

show, play through views, record movies of the views, import and export views, save and 

delete views, and animate view changes. 

Menu equivalent: 

View 

→

 Manage Views

.

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The 

Save View

 dialog box opens, in which you can enter a name for the view. The default

name is 

view

N. If you want to save views with the default name rather than explicitly naming

them, you can select 

Use default name

 under 

When saving views

 in the 

Manage Views

 panel.

The 

Save View

 dialog box is no longer displayed, unless you select 

Prompt for name

. 

The translation, rotation, and zoom are stored in the named view, and the new view is saved in

the project. Once the view is saved, it is listed on the 

Restore View

 submenu of the 

View

 menu

and entered into the table in the 

Manage Views

 panel. If it is in the top five views in this table,

it is associated with a button on the 

Views

 toolbar. 

Named views store information only about the state of the “camera”—the location, angle, and

zoom. They do not store any information about the content of the Workspace. This means that

you can, for example, set up a view of a protein, then at some later point, display the protein

from the same angle with a ligand in the binding pocket. 

To restore a saved view, use one of the following methods:

• Choose 

View 

→

 Restore View 

→

 

view-name 

• Click the button for the view on the View toolbar (if it has one)

• Select the view in the 

Manage Views

 panel and click 

Restore

 

In addition to restoring a single view, you can step through a sequence of views manually, or

play through a sequence of views with a given display time for each view, and you can export a

movie of the sequence of views.

The views that are played can be selected by checking the check box in the 

Play

 column of the

Views

 table. Only the checked views are played with the play controls. These controls also

apply to saving a movie of the views. 

To step through views manually, click the 

Previous view

 or 

Next view

 button on the 

Saved

Views

 toolbar, or in the 

Manage Views

 panel. You can also use the 

View 

→

 Restore View

submenu items to step to the previous or next view.

To play through the views continuously, use the controls in the 

Manage Views

 panel. 

If you want the view changes to be smooth rather than instantaneous, select 

View animation

 in

the 

Animation

 section, and set the duration of the animation. If the distances the structures

move are large, you can control when the animation is used by selecting 

Limit animation

distance

 and entering the distance above which animation is turned off in the 

Maximum

distance

 text box. 

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The animation time can be coordinated with the length of time each view is displayed to

produce a continuous movement. The view time is set in the 

Pause Time 

column of the 

Views

table. If you want to set the pause time for multiple views, select them in the table, enter a

value in the 

Set pause times to

 text box, and click 

Set

. 

To save a movie in MPEG format with the chosen play list and duration settings, click 

Record

Movie

, and navigate to a location and name the movie file. The movie does not record anima-

tion of view changes.

To delete views, select them in the 

Views

 table and click 

Delete

.

Since views are saved in the project, they are not automatically available when you close the

project. To transfer views between projects, you can import and export them, by using the

Import

 and 

Export

 buttons. These buttons open file selectors, in which you can navigate to a

location and name the view file. 

4.4

Tiling the Workspace

Sometimes you want to see several structures or surfaces in the Workspace separated from

each other, rather than superimposed. This can be done by tiling the Workspace contents,

which rearranges the objects in a grid pattern in the Workspace. There are three ways that you

can tile the Workspace, or tiling modes, which can be selected from the 

Tile

 submenu of the

View

 menu or the 

Tile

 button menu on the 

View

 toolbar.

•

Tile by Entry

—This is the default mode, in which each entry in the Workspace occupies a

separate tile, except for fixed entries, which are displayed in every tile.

•

Tile by Entry Groups

—In this mode, all entries that are in the same entry group are dis-

played in the same tile. This mode allows you, for example, to display several proteins

with their ligands in the Workspace, and use the ePlayer to step through ligands for a

given receptor.

•

Tile by Surface

—In this mode, each surface that is displayed in the Workspace is placed

in a separate tile, along with the corresponding structure. Surfaces for fixed entries are

displayed in every tile, and entries that are displayed in the Workspace that do not have

surfaces are displayed in their own tiles, at the end of the grid (i.e. they are treated as hav-

ing a single surface that is null). This mode allows you to display multiple surfaces for a

single entry in separate tiles, such as molecular orbitals or SiteMap surfaces.

To perform the tiling, choose 

View 

→

 Tile 

→

 Tile Workspace

, or click the 

Tile 

button on the

View

 toolbar. 

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