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From: Lan He (Lan.He_at_asu.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 10:46:37 CDT

Hi,
 
Thank you, Axel Kohlmeyer and Olaf Lenz.
 
Actually, I'm using the latest VMD version 1.8.7. I'll read the documentation of the pbctools plugin first. Hope this time the commands can work.
 
Have a nice day,
 
Lan

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From: Olaf Lenz [mailto:lenzo_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de]
Sent: Thu 10/8/2009 0:03
To: Axel Kohlmeyer
Cc: Lan He; vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: vmd-l: how to display the periodic box in VMD

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Hi!

Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:51 -0700, Lan He wrote:
>> I get the problem with displaying the periodic box in VMD. I downloaded pbctools.tcl and ran the codes of pbctools.tcl in VMD TkConsole. Then I thought I can used the commands in pbctools. But, sort of, not like this. I tried to use draw_pbc_vectors and I failed. I'm not familar with tcl code. So, I don't clearly know about the arguments in each command of pbctools. I know, it is easy to draw the defined box in OPGL. using lines to connect the defined points of the specific box can generate the box image (i.e. rectangular box or cubic box). I think the tcl codes in pbctools should have described how to draw. Unfortunately, I don't know how to use these commands. I guess I must miss something. Could anyone give me some suggestions? Thanks a lot!
>
> pbctools.tcl is _long_ obsolete.

As Axel didn't mention where: The documentation of the pbctools plugin
that is included in VMD 1.8.6 and 1.8.7 can be found here:

        http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pbctools/

If I assume that you have one of these versions, it should be enough to
type "pbc box" in your Tk console to generate the box you want.

Best regards
        Olaf

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