Re: [Jmol-users] Grouping of arbitrary elements

2011-02-23 Thread Angel Herráez
Evgeny, Yes, you can add dummy atoms using a script. See http://www.mail-archive.com/jmol- us...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg16573.html for some more info and an example. You should best use the existing Xx notation for an undefined element. Then you can select Xx to act on it, set its size,

Re: [Jmol-users] Grouping of arbitrary elements

2011-02-23 Thread Robert Hanson
If you can make your polygon using atoms, you can move and rotate it independently in quite interesting ways. That's actually a nice idea. Also, though, you might consider using the PMESH command rather than DRAW. A pmesh object can be rotated, and offset easily. One catch, I think, is that if it

Re: [Jmol-users] Grouping of arbitrary elements

2011-02-23 Thread Kalishenko Evgeny
Thanks a lot, Bob! Speaking on the application, it's an implementation of one spatial protein structure modeling approach. We need to draw some geometric figures (dodecahedron for instance) near the protein. Besides, we need an ability to rotate and to move figures by user. 21:35 Wednesday 23

Re: [Jmol-users] Grouping of arbitrary elements

2011-02-22 Thread Robert Hanson
Just give them some common initial characters of their ID, for example: draw obj1_pt1 .. draw obj1_pt2 .. and then refer to them as draw obj1_* But there isn't a way of rotating drawn objects, just moving them (using OFFSET), and wild cards like that don't work with OFFSET. So that's not

Re: [Jmol-users] Grouping of arbitrary elements

2011-02-22 Thread Kalishenko Evgeny
Thanks for the suggestion. But moving and rotation are exactly what I want :) So, maybe it is time to see aside a drawing pseudomolecule with personal atom type created in a program way? 22:32 Tuesday 22 February 2011 you wrote: Just give them some common initial characters of their ID, for