Hi Carsten, This isn't yet possible from within PyMOL, but it will be soon since it is a recurring request. In the meantime unforutnately, you will need to truncate the maps outside of PyMOL in order to generate smaller session files.
Sorry about that! Cheers, Warren -- Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist . DeLano Scientific LLC . 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213 . South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA . Biz:(650)-872-0942 Tech:(650)-872-0834 . Fax:(650)-872-0273 Cell:(650)-346-1154 . mailto:war...@delsci.com > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:56 AM > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [PyMOL] Saving a carved section of a map. > > Hi > > I was wondering if it is possible to save a carved out > section of a map and the read it back into pymol as a > separate map. The background is that I'd like to distribute > .psw files with a couple of maps, but they get rather large > (>50 MB) since the map data is not compressed in pymol. I am > only interested in a small portion of the map centered around > a ligand and some residues, so the rest of the map would be > unnecessary since it will not be shown anyway. > > I have tried if mapman could do the trick but apparently not. > I could probably restrict the calculation of the map to be > only centered around a region of interest, but was wondering > if this would be possible in pymol. > > > Thanks > > Carsten > >