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From: Josh Vermaas (vermaas2_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2013 - 19:48:04 CDT

Hi Denny,

Under the extensions->visualization menu, there is a "clone
representations" feature. It vastly reduces the number of clicks
required to do what you describe. The color of the representation also
gets cloned, but one thing you could try if you aren't particular about
what color goes with what molecule is to color your representations by
molecule instead of by colorid.

-Josh Vermaas

On 07/18/2013 05:07 PM, Dennis N Bromley wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I apologize if this is a newbie question. I was not able to find an
> answer in my various searches.
>
> I have six molecules loaded into VMD (v. 1.9). Three wild type and
> three mutant structures, all colored differently (e.g. WT#1 is green,
> WT#2 is red, etc). I would like to quickly show residue 200 (say) as
> ball and stick and have that residue appear as ball and stick in all
> molecules, colored in the same way as the rest of the molecule. I
> know how to do this in Pymol, but I don't know how to do this is VMD.
> Any help would be great. What I am trying to avoid doing is
> laboriously going through each molecule, adding a ball and stick
> representation, setting the atom selection, setting the color, etc.
>
> thanks!
> -denny-
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