Re: [Jmol-users] duplicates and rotateSelected

[Bob H. <ha...@st...>]

Mauricio, you are just missing the keyword MOLECULAR on that 
rotateSelected command. Without that, Jmol is using the window 
coordinates, not the molecular coordinates. Sorry if that's not clear 
from the documentation.

Bob

Mauricio Carrillo Tripp wrote:

>
> sorry Bob, I just tried both 11.5.14 and 11.4.RC10
> and still get the same odd behavior.
> Could it be something else in the script?
> thanks again for your help...
>  
>
>     this is fixed for 11.5.14 and 11.4.RC10.
>
>     Mauricio Carrillo Tripp wrote:
>
>     > I'm having
>     > trouble when rotating them. I'm using the rotateSelected
>     > command with the AXISANGLE option, and although
>     > the duplicate is the only one that rotates, it does so
>     > around what it seems to be a different axis than the
>     > one that is defined. I tried setting the center to the origin
>     > but that didn't help. I know the rotation axis is correct
>     > (I'm drawing it). Most likely I'm missing something, but
>     > I don't know what else to try.
>     >
>     > Here's what I'm doing:
>     >
>     > select :A.Ca/2.1;
>     > x = data("selected","pdb");
>     > DATA "append @x";
>     > frame all;display 1.1,2.1,3.1;refresh;
>     > centerAt ABSOLUTE {0.0,0.0,0.0};
>     > select */3.1;
>     > draw five_fold_01 ARROW 110 DIAMETER 1 {0.0,0.0,0.0}
>     {0.0,70.0,113.4};
>     > rotateSelected AXISANGLE {0.0,70.0,113.4} 72.0;
>     > trace 0.5;
>     >
>     > To see it in action:
>     >
>     http://viperdb.scripps.edu/info_page_big_jmol.php?VDB=1dnv&tnumber=1
>     <http://viperdb.scripps.edu/info_page_big_jmol.php?VDB=1dnv&tnumber=1>
>     >
>     <http://viperdb.scripps.edu/info_page_big_jmol.php?VDB=1dnv&tnumber=1
>     <http://viperdb.scripps.edu/info_page_big_jmol.php?VDB=1dnv&tnumber=1>>
>     >
>     > after the model loads, clicking on the "exp" checkbox will
>     > run the script above. If you zoom out and rotate with the mouse,
>     > you'll see what I mean; the original model in blue, the duplicate
>     > in gray and the axis in orange. The duplicate should be rotating
>     > 72 degrees around the defined axis (right?), but instead it seems
>     > to be doing it "in place".
>     >
>     > Thanks for your help.
>
>
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