From: Fatemesadat Emami (fe2_at_zips.uakron.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2014 - 17:59:10 CST

Thanks Maxi,
how would you do it if you also have a center of rotation? I want to rotate
the molecule around the atom located on the circle
Fatima

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Maxim Belkin <mbelkin_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi Fatima,
>
> Here is an example how to rotate a selection by 10 degrees around z-axis.
>
> $sel move [trans z by 10]
>
>
> Maxim
>
> On Jan 22, 2014, at 5:38 PM, Fatemesadat Emami <fe2_at_zips.uakron.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Dear vmd users,
> I want to make a regular self-assembled structure using a repeat
> structure. I have a pdb/psf for a molecule, and I want to load it several
> times in a patterned from (e.g. with the heads positioned around a circle -
> something like a flower).
>
> I will combine the pdb/psf from all in file later to have one file.
>
> My problem is as following:
>
> -I can "moveby" the structure so that the heads are on the circle as I
> want; but I also need to rotate the structure so that it appears along the
> radius of the circle. there must be a simple rotation matrix to do so but I
> have not yet succeeded to find it.
>
> Could anybody please help?
>
> thanks
> Fatima
>
>
>
> --
> *Fateme S. Emami, Ph.D.*
>
> *Postdoctoral Fellow *
> *Non-Equilibrium Research Centre (NERC)**Northwestern University*
> *Email: fatemesadat.emami_at_northwestern.edu
> <fatemesadat.emami_at_northwestern.edu>*
>
>
>

-- 
*Fateme S. Emami, Ph.D.*
*Postdoctoral Fellow *
*Non-Equilibrium Research Centre (NERC)**Northwestern University*
*Email: fatemesadat.emami_at_northwestern.edu
<fatemesadat.emami_at_northwestern.edu>*