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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2012 - 12:34:07 CDT

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Christopher Neale
<chris.neale_at_mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Dear Users:
>
> I am experimenting with autoIMD. I am running vmd-1.9beta1 on Windows 7.
>
> I am able to run autoIMD and the tool appears to work very well. In the
> autoIMD command window, I can use the menu "file, show tool window", which
> pulls up "tool controls" Here, I can create a tool and set the type and a
> conical segment appears on the screen. However, I can not figure out how to
> use this tool. Google did not turn up any instructions on how to use this

you need a device that can connect to the tool.
in the classical IMD setup that would be a haptic
device interfaced through a VRPN server.

> and the manual does not list anything for autoIMD (
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/current/ug/ ).

please have a look at this page and the references listed there.

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/imd/

cheers,
    axel.

>
> Can anybody tell me how to use this tool?
>
> Thank you,
> Chris. 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science and Technology
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.