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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2008 - 13:07:55 CDT

Hi,
  Use the "$sel move" commands to manipulate an atom selection.
Once you've performed the transformations you want, you can then use
the "$sel writeXXX" commands to write out the structure to new file(s).
This is described in more detail in the User's Guide.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:40:48AM -0700, ianboru_at_email.arizona.edu wrote:
> Is there a way to rotate the actual coordinates of a protein and save a new pdb
> file that has a protein who's coordinates have been rotated? I saw the
> transaxis commands and others of the sort, but those commands seem to only
> return the transformation matrix and don't apply them. 

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