RayMol 1.11.3
Two ways to turn a selection into its own object, restoring a pair of desktop PyMOL menu items the Objects panel was missing.
Both live on the A menu of a selection row, near the bottom beside Move to Group. They differ in what happens to the structure you selected from:
- Copy to Object ▸ — leaves the original untouched. Pick New Object… to name a fresh copy, or pick a loaded object to merge the atoms into it (chain, segment and atom IDs are renamed on the way in so nothing collides). The object you copied from stays visible and keeps every atom.
- Extract ▸ — moves the atoms out of their parent object into a new one, named
obj01,obj02, … as PyMOL does. Choose object for the selection alone, or extend 1 / byres extend 1 to bring the bonded neighbourhood along — handy for pulling a ligand out together with the residues it touches. The emptied selection is cleared away afterwards rather than left behind as a row matching nothing.
Built on the open-source PyMOL engine. Updates install automatically via the in-app updater (Check for Updates… in the app menu).