3.14 Recentring View

• Use Control + left-mouse to drag around the view
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• middle-mouse over an atom. In this case, you will often see “slide-recentring”, the graphics smoothly changes between the current centre and the newly selected centre.
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• Use Draw -> Go To Atom... to select an atom using the keyboard. Note that you can subsequently use “Space” in the “graphics” window (OpenGL canvas) to recentre on the next C\alpha.
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• To centre on an arbitrary position (x,y,z), use the scripting function (set-rotation-centre x y z).
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• Use the keyboard: [Ctrl G] then key in a residue number and (optionally) a chainid and press Return

If you don't want smooth recentring (sliding) Edit -> Preferences -> Smooth Recentring -> Off. You can also use this dialog to speed it up a bit (by decreasing the number of steps instead of turning it off).