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From: Justin Gullingsrud (justinrocks_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 20:56:22 CST

Yep: instead of fixing/unfixing, use Mouse->Move->Molecule and drag
one of the molecules to a new position. The switch back to rotation
mode and the molecules will rotate about the same center point.

Justin

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:15:56 +1100, Dallas Warren
<dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> I have two separate molecules (one is actually an isosurface) loaded into
> vmd and I would like to change their position relative to each other. I
> have been using the fixed setting so that I can rotate and translate one
> molecule with the other one fixed. However, the problem is that when you
> removed the fixed setting and you rotate both, then they rotate around a
> different center (which then means they their alignment changes as you
> rotate them around).
>
> Is it possible to have it so that they both rotate around the same center?
>
> Catch ya,
>
>
> Dr. Dallas Warren
> Research Fellow
> Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
> Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
> 381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3010
> dallas.warren_at_vcp.monash.edu.au
> +61 3 9903 9083
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