Hi Tim, you can use the 'dots' command where you can adjust the sphere radius as well:
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~emsley/coot/doc/user-manual.html#SEC84 B *************************************************** Dr. Bernhard Lohkamp Assistant Professor Div. Molecular Structural Biology Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB) Karolinska Institutet S-17177 Stockholm Sweden phone: (+46) 08-52487673 fax: (+46) 08-327626 email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Gruene <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:20 pm Subject: Re: [COOT] (transparent) sphere To: [email protected] > Hi Bernhard, > > both sound like good enough approximations to me. > How would I do the dotted surface? Can I adjust the > radius? > > -- > Tim Gruene > Institut fuer anorganische Chemie > Tammannstr. 4 > D-37077 Goettingen > > GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Bernhard Lohkamp wrote: > > > > > You currently cannot create a sphere as such (certainly not > > transparent). But you there is some workarounds: > > > > 1.) create a generic object and add a dot (although the dot will > be a > > square esp when larger) > > > > 2.) put a dummy atom at the required position and display as > > ball'n'stick model (or for mock transparency as dotted surface). > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > B > > > > *************************************************** > > > > Dr. Bernhard Lohkamp > > Assistant Professor > > Div. Molecular Structural Biology > > Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics (MBB) > > Karolinska Institutet > > S-17177 Stockholm > > Sweden > > > > phone: (+46) 08-52487673 > > fax: (+46) 08-327626 > > email: [email protected] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Tim Gruene <[email protected]> > > Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:13 pm > > Subject: [COOT] (transparent) sphere > > To: [email protected] > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> is there a way to display a sphere with given radius at a specific > >> position in coot? preferably semi-transparent? > >> > >> Otherwise I'd have to import a map into rasmol and I find that a > >> little > >> cumbersome. > >> > >> Cheers, Tim > >> > >> -- > >> Tim Gruene > >> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie > >> Tammannstr. 4 > >> D-37077 Goettingen > >> > >> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > >> > > >
