[PyMOL] how to change radius of cylindrical helix

[Scott C. <cl...@uc...>]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 11:37  PM, yibin xu wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> I got a simple question here, how to change radius of CYLINDRICAL
> HELICES(I actually want to make default cylindrical helices thiner).
> Thanks very much in advance
> Best regards
> yibin
>

this is to turn on cylyndrical helices and make them thinner:

#### show alpha helices as cyclinders
set cartoon_cylindrical_helices, 1
set cartoon_helix_radius, 1.7


You can also do similar things with beta strands if you don't like the 
default sizes:

#### for beta strands default 1.4 and 0.4
set cartoon_rect_length, 1.0
set cartoon_rect_width, 0.3


Good Luck,
Scott

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