Change camera size

This How-to applies to: 1.4.5
This How-to is intended for: Any audience.

Start PMV and click on Set Camera Size of the 3D Graphics menu. This will popup Set Camera Size window where you can set Camera width, height and X/Y offsets. Change these values using Thumbwheel widget and click OK.  Now, if you lick on the "Message Box" icon you can see that the actual command that has been executed is:

self.setCameraSize(612, 539, xoffset=119, yoffset=41

Copy this code and paste it at the end of your ~/.mgltools/1.4.5/Pmv/_pmvrc file. Next time you start PMV, this code will be executed setting Camera size as needed.

see also:

Changing default parameters

Explains how-to change default parameters using _pmvrc.