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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 08:59:22 CDT

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:48 PM, mahesh gudem <mahialprhcu_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear VMD Users,
>
> I am new to VMD to make molecular structures. But I have managed well in
> making the structures.
>
> Now, I need to draw a dashed line between two atoms in the molecule to
> indicate the transition state. This, I have done through TKconsole with
> below script
>
>
> set sel1 [atomselect "index 6 "]
> set sel2 [atomselect "index 7"]
> # To get coordinates
> lassign [$sel1 get {x y z}] pos1
> lassign [$sel2 get {x y z}] pos2
> # To draw a blue line between the two atoms
> draw color blue
> draw line $pos1 $pos2 style dotted width 5
>
> Up to here all is fine, I have got the nice dashed line by the above script.
>
> Actually, For me the image of the transition structure having ( 1.8 * 1.8 )
> dimensions is only useful. But with these dimensions,
>
> the dashed bond hasn't visible properly. So I want to increase the space
> between each dash i.e I want to use (- - - -)
> instead of (----). Is there any way to do this ...??

currently not without changing the source code.

axel.

>
> Help me to solve this
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Mahesh Gudem.
>
>
>
>
>
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> N_at_N$S
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> 

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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.