VMD-L Mailing List

From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2013 - 04:33:04 CDT

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Sundararajan Natarajan
<sundararajan.natarajan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> dear Prof. Axel, Thanks for your email.
> I will wait for the release. Is it possible to download the alpha version?

instructions for downloading alpha/beta test versions of VMD are here:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/

i'm currently cleaning up a few other pending issues with the code, so
if you encounter some other problems, waiting until the next alpha
release might be a good idea.

axel.

> Thanks,
> Sundar
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Sundararajan Natarajan
>> <sundararajan.natarajan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hello all,
>> > i am running VMD 1.9.1 on mac mountain lion. I want to create
>> > boron-nitride
>> > sheets, which has a bond length of 1.4A. I did this with command prompt
>> > graphene -lx 1 -ly 1 -nlayers 1 -cc 0.145
>> >
>> > But it creates sheets with bond length 0.1418 (which is the default). My
>> > question is: is it possible to override this option so that we could
>> > create
>> > other types of nanosheets?
>>
>> the flag to adjust the bond length was only added to VMD 1.9.2alpha7.
>> please see: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-new/devel.html
>>
>> axel.
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for all your help,
>> > Sundar
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Sundararajan Natarajan
>> >> <sundararajan.natarajan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hello All,
>> >> >
>> >> > I have used VMD carbon nanotube builder. Would it be possible to
>> >> > generate
>> >> > other nanotubes using the command line option
>> >> >
>> >> > graphene -lx <length> -ly <length> -type <armchair|zigzag> [-nlayers
>> >> > <number
>> >> > of layers>] [-b <0|1>] [-a <0|1>] [-d <0|1>] [-i <0|1>] [-cc
>> >> > <blength>]
>> >>
>> >> this is the command to generate graphene sheets. difficult to do
>> >> nanotubes with it.
>> >> what do you mean by "other than CNT".
>> >>
>> >> > I have tried this with -cc <blength>, default is C-C bond, 0.1418. I
>> >> > tried
>> >> > to change this, but it does not work.
>> >>
>> >> "does not work" is a useless description. it *does* work for me and
>> >> now this help you??
>> >>
>> >> so you'll have to provide more details: what exactly did you do? and
>> >> what did you expect? and what did you get instead?
>> >>
>> >> ...and always specify which version of VMD and what OS you are using.
>> >>
>> >> > Could you please provide me with suggestions.
>> >>
>> >> please me more specific or else nobody will be able to help you.
>> >>
>> >> thanks,
>> >> axel.
>> >>
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > Sundar
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>> >> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
>> International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
>
> 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.