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From: Maxim Belkin (mbelkin_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2014 - 18:06:39 CST

Great! Just in case, here is a page you might find helpful:

http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.9/ug/node190.html

Maxim

On Jan 22, 2014, at 6:03 PM, Fatemesadat Emami <fe2_at_zips.uakron.edu> wrote:

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