View Menu#

The View menu contains several features useful for rotating the camera, coloring atoms, and choosing rendering settings.

Center: Center the camera around the origin and align your view to the axes
Align View to Axes: Align your view to the axes, but do not move the camera.
Focus Selection: Focus the camera on the selected atoms. This will cause any rotations to be centered around the focused atoms.
Unfocus: Undo the camera focusing.
Rendering: Open a dialog to select the rendering options.
Set Background Color: Open a dialog to change the background color.
Projection: Select between perspective and orthographic projections.

Note

An orthographic projection means all atoms are the same size, while a perspective projection means that atoms that are closer to the camera will be larger.

Color Atoms: Change the color of the atoms by a property with one of the available colormaps, or by a custom color. By default, this colors atoms by their element. There are two sets of available colormaps for atoms, one set for charge that works on a blue-red motif, and another for color-by-index and color-by-distance that has a larger range of colors.

Color Residues: Color protein structures by various properties.

Note

To see these colors you must have the Cartoons display type enabled.