Hi Mark, Try:
set cartoon_cylindrical_helices,1 I think it should do the trick. For more cartoon related settings, type set cartoon_ and press <TAB>; pymol will then give you the list of all settings which match. Cheers, Tsjerk On 10/10/05, Mark Mayer <may...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to draw alpha helices as cylinders in PyMol? The > effect I'm looking for is like the Molscript/render version of > cylinders. > > Related to this, when I read into pymol an r3d script generated by > molscript with helices drawn as flat ended cylinders, PyMol draws the > cylinders as sausages with found tops and bottoms. If anyone knows of > a fix I'd be grateful to know; PyMol is fantastic for making movies > from r3d scripts if you already have figs made in this format. > > Thanks > > > -- > Mark Mayer Ph.D. > LCMN NICHD NIH DHHS > Bldg 35, Room 3B 1002 MSC 3712 > 35 Lincoln Drive > Bethesda MD 20892 3712 > Phone: 301-496-9346 (office); 301-496-9347 (lab); FAX 301-496-2396 > Lab web site: http://mayerlab.nichd.nih.gov > > Send packages, Fedex and anything requiring a signature to: > > Bldg 35, Room 3B 1004 > 35 Lincoln Drive > Bethesda MD 20892 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users > -- Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, M.Sc. Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute (GBB) Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry University of Groningen Nijenborgh 4 9747AG Groningen, The Netherlands +31 50 363 4336
