VMD-L Mailing List

From: Justin Gullingsrud (justin_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 11:21:13 CDT

Brian,

Holding down the shift key while you move the mouse will rotate the residue
about the atom that you pick. The left and right mouse buttons will rotate
the residue in the same way that they rotate the scene when the mouse is in
rotate mode.

Justin
 
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:27:32AM -0700, B. Bennion wrote:
> hello vmd users,
>
> I would like to select a residue from a pdb file and while all other atoms
> are fixed, rotate move etc... the selected residue.
>
> the move command on the mouse menu allows for translation but not
> rotation.
>
> I am using vmd1.8a16.
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Brian Bennion
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Dep. Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington
> Tel# (206)616-2779
> BOX 357610 Seattle WA 98195
>
> email--bbennion_at_u.washington.edu
> web page--http://students.washington.edu/bbennion 

-- 
Justin Gullingsrud      3111 Beckman Institute
H: (217) 384-4220       I got a million ideas that I ain't even rocked yet...
W: (217) 244-8946       -- Mike D