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From: Michele Andrews - Contractor (mandrews_at_arl.army.mil)
Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 11:11:16 CST

Hi,

First I would like to say that VMD is a great program, I use it with a
cavetracker and wand and the scientists that I work with love what I have
done so far. I have two simple questions.

First, I am trying to load a pdb file and do some simple rotations. Here is
what I have so far:

mol load pdb first.pdb
mol delrep 0 top
mol representation CPK 1.5 0.5 15.0 6.0
mol color Name
mol selection {all}
mol material Opaque
mol addrep top
mol rename top {first.pdb}
rotate x by 360 1
wait 30
rotate y by 360 1
wait 30
rotate z by 360 1

I know in the users guide it says that wait will not act as expected in
complex tcl scripts, but I thought this was not complicated since there
were no loops involved. Am I using the right commands? I would like to
eventually add more pdb files, not necessarily named in sequence order. As
written I am getting only a portion of the x and y rotations.

Second, is there a way to associate more than one tool to the cavebuttons
at one time? I tried loading several tool options at once, but only one
cavebutton seems to respond.

Thanks in advance,
Michele