From: Bjoern Olausson (namdlist_at_googlemail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2010 - 08:19:32 CDT

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 13:43:35 you wrote:
> Hello VMD,
>
> I would like to draw a box in order to see the edge of a crystal cell.
>
> I saw that the plugins PBCTools can do that but I did not success in using
> commands that the plugins provides.
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/pbctools/#x1-50004.1
>
> How do I set the parameters ? What is the true syntax ? I tried different
> syntaxes of
>
> pbc set cell or set cell or pbc cell ...
>
> I put arguments in {} or [] ... and I did not find the true syntax.
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Germain

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

They didn't mention to use {} around alpha, beta, gamma

pbc set {100 100 100} -all -molid top
pbc box -center origin

Works for me in the VMD TkConsole

Cheers
Bjoern

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