The trick to updating the menu is to use the frame command. If you only 
have one frame, just add this:

  frame 0

and the menu will be updated to enable isosurface mapping of MEP

Bob

frame Reinhold Stoermann wrote:

>Hello to all,
>
>I just joined this list, because I currently try to convert a website 
>from using the old MDL Chime to jmol.
>(jmol 11.2.14).
>
>The molecules are represented by a bunch of PDB files, where the columns 
>61-66 usually holding the temperature factor have been filled instead 
>with partial charges of the atoms which where computed with MOPAC.
>
>This arrangement made it possible in Chime to generate an isosurface 
>with a coloring scheme according to the partial charges.
>
>If I laod the same pdb files in jmol, the menu option
>
>Surfaces -> Molecular Electrostatic Potential
>
>is not accessible, and a script using the command
>
>color atoms temperature
>
>gives an image of red an blue atom colorings bearing no relation to the 
>"temperature factors" (which are actually partial charges). Even if I 
>change some of the these values in the pdb file by hand, this has no 
>effect on the given coloration of the manipulated atoms.
>
>Maybe Jmol does not support this trick to visualize molecular 
>electrostatic potentials from pdb files?
>
>So if I have to convert the pdb files to some other format, what would 
>it be?
>(I still need the pdb columns for the "residue name" to be conserved in 
>that other format, because some other coloration scheme depends on that.)
>
>
>Dr. Reinhold Störmann
>Bioorganic Chemistry
>Center for Environmental Research & Technology (UFT)
>Leobener Str.
>D-28359 Bremen
>
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