Feature Requests item #905197, was opened at 2004-02-26 11:41 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by molvisions You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=379136&aid=905197&group_id=23629
Category: None Group: v10 Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Timothy Driscoll (molvisions) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: rods or struts Initial Comment: I would like to be able to select two atoms and connect them with a solid rod. this is indepedent of whether or not the atoms are bonded or within any defined distance of each other. why? I am building a Jmol-based interface to design physical models. many physical models require 'struts' for structural support. up until now, we have used moniter lines as struts, in a special build of RasMol which can render monitors at any thickness (not just dotted). Miguel, is this complicated? maybe I try it myself with a little direction? thanks, tim driscoll ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Timothy Driscoll (molvisions) Date: 2004-02-26 14:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=920824 hi Miguel, snow day this afternoon here - had to pick up my daughter at school. monitor distance values can be turned off in Jmol. same syntax as Chime/Rasmol. diameter of the monitors is not under user control in any of the programs. I am using a special version of RasMol that, among other things, allows commands like 'set monitor 100' (in rasmol units) to define monitor diameters. I would love to have a similar command in Jmol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael T Howard (michaelthoward) Date: 2004-02-26 12:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=608250 Monitors are implemented. I do not remember whether or not you can turn off the distance display. Try the same command that you use in RasMol/Chime. But they are a little special and need some more work. So I don't think that it is an easy one for you to implement. But I can do it. It will give me an opportunity to clean it up a little bit. In RasMol/Chime are monitors shown as dashed/dotted lines? Can you make them solid? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Timothy Driscoll (molvisions) Date: 2004-02-26 12:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=920824 adding as bonds is ok, though not ideal. I was trying to keep artifical struts spearate from 'real' interactions, but not if it is a *lot* more work. are monitors implemented? if so, would it be difficult to expose the diameter for user control? this would be a very helpful feature for me in particular, but probably not widely used. so I want to make it as easy to add as possible. if that means defining an extra 'bond' then that is ok. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael T Howard (michaelthoward) Date: 2004-02-26 12:06 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=608250 Unless there is good reason to do otherwise, the easiest way to do this is by adding this as a bond. Once the bond is defined, Jmol will draw it regardless of how long it is. What do you think about this? ... extend the 'connect' command to take two atom numbers ... the same numbers that we would use for monitor You can then make an explicit bond between these atoms. Once it is added, it acts like every other bond. The other approach would be to define a new object ... a rod. It would run from one arbitrary 3D coordinate to another. It would be more flexible, but would be a *lot* more work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=379136&aid=905197&group_id=23629 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
