Right! I did not have all atoms selected. I suggest a change "best
orientation for viewing" to "best orientation for viewing the selected
atoms". And change "the model's containing box" to "the containing box
of the selected atoms". It never occurred to me to select all first.
Also I had difficulty understanding "thinnest along the line of site".
(It should be "line of sight"). I suggest "thinnest front to back".
Jean-Baptiste: do "select all" before you "rotate best".
Bob: Thanks!
-Eric
On 10/28/16 12:59 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Eric Martz
<ema...@microbio.umass.edu <mailto:ema...@microbio.umass.edu>> wrote:
1. When I apply "rotate best" to 1d66, I expect the distance from the
frontmost to backmost atoms to be minimized, and the distance from the
leftmost to rightmost atoms to be maximized. Neither appears to
happen.
Do I misunderstand the goal?
works for me. What are you seeing? Do you have all the atoms selected?
" Rotates the model to a calculated "best" orientation for
viewing, such
that the model's containing box is thinnest along the line of site
(z),
and widest horizontally (x)."
That should read -- such that the box containing /the selected atoms..../
When I apply "rotate best" to 3hyd (a linear peptide), the top to
bottom
distance seems to be minimized and the left to right maximized,
with the
front to back intermediate.
If "rotate best" is working properly, could someone please explain
it to me?
2. Are there any other commands that automatically rotate the model to
an optimal orientation? It appears to me that "moveto
front|top|bottom|left|right|back" relates to the initial (reset)
orientation, not to any "optimal" orientation.
Just that one.
Thanks, Eric
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