To be consistent with the language in the documentation, I have changed
the code so that you can also do this:
translate selected {1 1 1 } {atomno=3}
even though it is not really the "selected" atoms that are being moved.
See http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/?ver=14.2#translate
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Robert Hanson <hans...@stolaf.edu> wrote:
> It's
>
> // translate [selected] X|Y|Z x.x [NM|ANGSTROMS]
> // translate [selected] X|Y x.x%
>
> For example
>
> translate selected X 3.5 # angstroms assumed here
> translate selected Y 50%
>
> So the atoms that are moving must be the ones already selected.
>
> I looked at the Jmol 11 code, where the command was introduced, and there
> wasn't there; I have no idea where that option in the documentation comes
> from. I've removed that from the documentation. It was supposed to just
> read:
>
> translateSelected
>
> *Translates a specifed subset of atoms. All of the options for translate
> <http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/index.htm?ver=14.4#translate> are
> available for translateSelected, which then operate only on the currently
> selected atoms. *
> *Examples:* select molecule=1
> translateSelected {0 0 1/1}
> ​BUT, what is there and is not documented is that you can do this:
>
> translate {0 0 1/1} {atomno=3}
>
> So just take out the "selected" there and you will be fine.
>
> Bob
>
>
--
Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Department of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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