Stephen, Sorry, the mesh representation right now is limited to rendering a Cartesian box. The selection controls the size of the box, but all atoms within the box are currently always shown. I will look into changing this so that the mesh performs more like the other representations.
Cheers, Warren -- mailto:war...@delanoscientific.com Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist DeLano Scientific LLC Voice (650)-346-1154 Fax (650)-593-4020 > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:pymol-users- > ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Soisson, Stephen Michael > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 3:27 AM > To: 'pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net' > Subject: [PyMOL] mesh question > > Hi everyone- > > I have two interacting monomers, and have selected the contacting > resides between them and drawn a solid surface around these selected > residues on one monomer. This worked fine and I had no problem. > > I would now like to draw a mesh surface around the remaining residues > in the monomer, that is, everything but the contacting residues. No > matter what selection scheme I try to use, the mesh is always drawn > around the entire molecule. > > For instance: > > select contacts=(byres monA and (monB around 4)) > show surface, contacts > > show mesh, (monA and (!contacts)) ****mesh is still drawn around whole > molecule > > However, the following command does work to color just the mesh > surface that is not in contact with the other monomer: > > color grey70, (monA and (!contacts)) > > which leads me to believe that my syntax is correct for the selection. > > What am I missing? Is there a way to just show the mesh over a > certain portion of a molecule? > > Many thanks in advance- > > Steve > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > -- > -- > Stephen M. Soisson, Ph.D. > Senior Research Biochemist > X-ray Crystallography / Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry > Merck Research Laboratories > P.O. Box 2000, RY50-105 > Rahway, NJ 07065 > Phone: (732) 594-4349 > Fax: (732) 594-5042 > stephen_sois...@merck.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > ---- > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains > information of Merck & Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, > USA) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally > privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity > named on this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and > have received this message in error, please immediately return this by > e-mail and then delete it. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- > ---- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware > With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single > machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual > machines at the same time. Free trial click here: > http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users