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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 18:14:17 CDT

Darui,
  I'm about to leave the office, but I'll take a look at this and get
back to you on it. Without having had a chance to look at your VRML file,
I suspect that the gap you're probably "intentional", at least in that
VMD doesn't connect the vertices of bases, sugars etc directly to the
ribbon backbone itself, they are rendered as separate entitites.
Are you trying to print a 3-D model from that VRML file?
(and thus the concern for connectivity)

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:28:31PM -0400, Darui Xu wrote:
> Hi, vmd-l
> I want to use vmd to do a ribbons reprensentaion of a RNA duplex. It seems
> to me that the sugars are not connected to the backbones.
> I am wondering is it the way it is supposed to be or I didn't something
> wrong.
> Attached is the vrml-2 render of the picutre if you want to take a look.
> thanks
> darui 

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