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From: Maxim Belkin (mbelkin_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 25 2014 - 12:15:49 CST

Hi Michail,

Add the following command in the beginning of your graphene.tcl:

package require nanotube

Maxim

On Feb 25, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Michail Palaiokostas Avramidis <m.palaiokostas_at_qmul.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a tcl script where I make a graphene sheet using the nanostructure builder plugin as:
> graphene -lx $lengthX -ly $lengthY -type armchair -nlayers 1 -b 1 -a 1 -d 1 -i 1
>
> When I run the script from the command line as:
> vmd -e graphene.tcl
> everything works as it should.
>
> However, when I suppress the VMD window as:
> vmd -e graphene.tcl -dispdev text
> I get the following error:
> invalid command name "graphene"
>
> Do you know why this happens? Probably I should load the plugin as a package but I cannot find anywhere what is the name of the package. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you in advance for your time,
>
> Kind Regards,
> Michalis Palaiokokostas
>
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> Queen Mary, University of London
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