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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 22:49:48 CDT

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Lane Votapka <lvotapka100_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I seem to be coming across a strange phenomenon. I'm trying to create a
> blank molecule with which to draw graphics only, but it seems like whenever
> I try to load a separate molecule beforehand, the shapes are drawn to
> different sizes
>
> Here is an example:
>
> I open VMD and the tkconsole and type the following commands:
> mol load graphics "whatever"
> mol new something.pdb
> graphics 0 sphere { 0 0 0} radius 10
>
> This seems to make normal-sized graphics...
>
> But if I close and reopen VMD and then type the following commands in the
> tkconsole:
> mol new something.pdb
> mol load graphics "whatever"
> graphics top sphere {0 0 0} radius 10
>
> This makes a really huge sphere.
>
> The size of the graphic appears to depend on what order I load the molecule
> structure and create the graphics mol.
> I'm using VMD 1.9.
>
> Any ideas what's causing this?

after loading a new molecule, VMD tries to reset the view in a way
that the newly loaded molecule fills the available screen space.

axel,

> -Lane Votapka 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.