Hi Roger, the easiest solution is probably to create a fake pdb file with dummy atoms (located roughly in the center of mass) to represent each molecule in your ASU.
make sure the pdb file contains the same CRYST entry as your original file. you can load it into pymol and then scale up the atom radius to approximate the size of your molecule. set sphere_scale, 5.0 show spheres, all and finally create the symmetry related 'molecules' with symexp. cheers, peter On Thursday 07 October 2004 17:33, Roger Dodd wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to prepare a figure illustrating a fairly complex packing > arrangement in a large H32 (R32) unit cell, where the packing may > actually have some biological relevance. To try and show the packing > I've been generating symmetry related molecules using the symexp > command. The problem I've been running into is that things become too > complex and cluttered, whether I use lines, ribbons, cartoons, etc. My > asymmetric unit contains 2 homo-pentamers and my question is - would it > be possible to replace each monomer with, for example, an ellipsoid of > roughly the same size centred on the subunit's centre of mass to > simplify things? Is this the sort of thing that could be done with a cgo > object? Any help or other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers > > Roger > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users -- ___________________________________________ Dr. Peter Haebel Philipps-Universität Marburg Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie Marbacher Weg 6 D-35032 Marburg phone: +49-6421-28-25072 fax: +49-6421-28-28994 email: peter.hae...@staff.uni-marburg.de http://www.agklebe.de
