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From: Keith Battle (keith.battle_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 18:00:35 CDT

Thanks John,

I took your advice and colored the selection graphically and figured out
where I went wrong in my selection.

Best,

Keith

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:43 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Keith,
> That selection ought to work, when you said that it doesn't work,
> are you getting a syntax error, or just not getting anything selected
> though you'd expect to?
>
> I always recommend using the selection with a graphical representation
> if you're having trouble getting what you want, since you can immediately
> see what is/isn't being selected visually...
>
> You can also do something like this to verify the coordinates you're
> dealing with:
> set sel [atomselect top "some selection"]
> $sel get x
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:31:02PM -0500, Keith Battle wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Does anyone know a way to do an [atomselect] for all atoms with an
> > x-coordinate greater than a certain number? I would think it would
> look
> > something like: set sel [atomselect top "x > 1.1234"] but I can't get
> that
> > command to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > Best,
> > Keith Battle
> > Research Technician
> > University of South Alabama
>
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