VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 11:11:23 CST

Hi,
  The Tcl command you're looking for are:
mol showperiodic <molid> <repid> [flags] -- Get or set periodic image display
and
mol numperiodic <molid> <repid> <n> -- Get or set number of periodic images

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 06:08:28PM +0100, Nicolas Sapay wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I need to display the periodic images of a simulation box. I have set
> the unit cell (a b c alpha beta gamma) using the molinfo command :
>
> molinfo top set {a b c alpha beta gamma} {50 50 50 90 90 90}
>
> I know it is possible to display periodic images from the Graphical
> Representation menu but I can't find the corresponding TCL command to do
> this. Can someone help me?
>
> Thanks a lot !
>
> Nicolas
>
> [ Dr Nicolas Sapay ]
> Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines
> CNRS - Claude Bernard University, IFR128 Bioscience Lyon-Gerland
> Phone: +33 (0)4 72 72 26 46 - Fax: +33 (0)4 72 72 26 46
> Address: 7 passage du Vercors, 69367-F Lyon cedex 07, France
> 

-- 
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078