Hi Fei, * Fei Xu <f...@rutchem.rutgers.edu> [2006-04-19 11:55] wrote: > Hi!: > I met a scaling problem. > I created many pdb files along one trajectory of DNA movement. I loaded > each pdb file in pymol to create a picture, that is, one frame of the > trajectory. Pymol shows each molecule in an optimal size automatically > according the general shape of the molecular. The shape of the molecule > along trajectory kept changing so that the size of the molecule also kept > changing. When I connected all the time frames together, I saw the funny > effect that the molecule was jumping back and forth. > How can I put the molecule in the different time frames in exactly the > same size?
What you are experiencing is the "auto_zoom" feature of pymol. I have this turned off in my .pymolrc file. You can type: set auto_zoom, 0 to disable this feature. Cheers, Rob -- Robert L. Campbell, Ph.D. <r...@post.queensu.ca> Senior Research Associate phone: 613-533-6821 Dept. of Biochemistry, Queen's University, fax: 613-533-2497 Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada http://adelie.biochem.queensu.ca/~rlc PGP Fingerprint: 9B49 3D3F A489 05DC B35C 8E33 F238 A8F5 F635 C0E2