I think that the create command will do this create newM, select statement
if I have a molecule named mol1 with three chains and I want to make a copy of chain c I would use create new_C, mol1 & c. C Andrew On 3/28/06, Michael Weber <web...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote: > > Hello, > is there a possibility in PyMOL to duplicate a molecule that is present in > the currently loaded PyMOL session file such that is exactly placed on its > "parent"? I have to color the same residue in two or more colors. > I ask this because reloading the same molecule requires subsequent alignment > and - strangely - these alignments are often not performed properly (my > files contain many other molecules as well) although the same molecule is > already present. > > Thanks for your help, > > Michael.