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From: dieter blaas (dieter.blaas_at_univie.ac.at)
Date: Tue Dec 28 2004 - 10:02:40 CST

Thanx, Axel,
  I had acidentially deleted the H:/temp directory which was defined as
environment variable. After I created it again, VMD made surfaces of
small molecules without trouble. However, when I try to render the
surface of the virus with roughly 400 000 coordinates I receive the
message: "surf_WIN32.exe has caused an error and will be closed.
Restart the program". I have about 10 GB free space on the H:\temp.
Win2k, AMD 1800, 512 MB RAM. Is this not sufficient? How could I
proceed?
Thanx for hints, Dieter

On 28 Dec 2004 at 15:37, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, dieter blaas wrote:
>
> dieter,
>
> DB> I have been trying hard to render the surface of a virus-receptor
> DB> complex (1v9u.pdb) but always get the message "ERROR) Failed to
> DB> create Surf atom radii input file". Since I believed that this is related to
>
> this message more likely indicates, that you have not set the
> VMDTMPDIR environment variable or it points to a non-writable
> or non-existing directory. the fact, that it also happens with
> a smaller file confirms that.
>
> please check the VMD installation instructions.
> for more specific suggestions, we'd need to
> know which platform/OS you are using (and which VMD version).
>
> regards,
> axel.
>
> DB> the large coordinate file I also tried to render a surface of a small
> DB> molecule. However, in all cases I receive the same message. What is
> DB> the reason?
> DB> Thanx for help, Dieter
> DB>
> DB>
>
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