[PyMOL] Help/suggestions for illustrating lattice arrangement

[Roger Dodd]

Hi,

I am trying to prepare a figure illustrating a fairly complex packing 
arrangement in a large H32 (R32) unit cell, where the packing may 
actually have some biological relevance. To try and show the packing 
I've been generating symmetry related molecules using the symexp 
command. The problem I've been running into is that things become too 
complex and cluttered, whether I use lines, ribbons, cartoons, etc. My 
asymmetric unit contains 2 homo-pentamers and my question is - would it 
be possible to replace each monomer with, for example, an ellipsoid of 
roughly the same size centred on the subunit's centre of mass to 
simplify things? Is this the sort of thing that could be done with a cgo 
object? Any help or other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Roger