Re: [Jmol-users] rotation

[timothy d. <mol...@ma...>]

at 3.59p EDT on 2004 February 25 Wednesday Miguel Howard said:

> Phil wrote:
> > I understand the "move" command to orient a molecule.  Is there a way
> > to invoke that, or something equivalent, to orient the structure before
> > displaying it rather than after?
>=20
> Phil,
>=20
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'befor displaying it rather than
> after' ... but, at some level, move is made up of:
>=20
> rotate x <degrees>
> rotate y <degrees>
> rotate z <degrees>
> zoom <percentage>
> translate x <percentage>
> translate y <percentage>
>=20
=2E..plus=20

time <sec>


move is designed to run over time.  for simple positioning, try=20

   view set x y z
  =20
  =20
or do something like this at the top of your script:

restrict none
# to make sure the mol is not displayed before positioning

rotate x <degrees>
rotate y <degrees>
rotate z <degrees>
translate x <percentage>
translate y <percentage>
zoom <percentage>

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hth,

:tim

--=20
timothy driscoll
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