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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 13 2008 - 08:45:40 CST

Hi,
  See the "mol default" command. You can use it to affect the
default color, style, selection, material, and so on.
Here's an example:
  mol default color {colorID 5}
  mol default style {NewCartoon 0.300000 6.000000 4.100000 0}
  mol default selection {name CA}
  mol default material {Diffuse}

Cheers,
  John Stone

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:39:43PM +0200, Heikki Kasnanen wrote:
> Hello dear fellow VMDers,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to set the default properties of a drawing method, for example, sphere resolution, bond radius and resolution for "Licorice" by using text commands? The manual defines various options for the "mol" command, but I was unable to locate if there are any specific, controllable options for each drawing style. I have a rather large number of small molecules loaded in VMD, and it would be beneficial to control the properties of each representation without using the GUI.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Heikki
>
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