[Jmol-users] Want some opinions on rotation about bond before posting a feature request...

[Jonathan G. <gu...@uw...>]

Dear Jmol Users,

One of my colleagues asked for an easier way to do rotation about a  
bond than selecting the atoms in a group and then using  
"rotateSelected {ID of atom 1 of bond} {ID of atom 2 of bond}".  They  
would like some kind of a GUI interface that students could use.  I  
think clicking on atoms to select them is OK.  It is having to use the  
command that is a problem.  Any thoughts on how this should work?   
There is something working in a recent version of RasMol according to  
this colleague. Avogadro and Spartan also have relatively elegant ways  
of doing this.  Once a general consensus is reached I will add it to  
the feature request list.

Jonathan
                          Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow
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