From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 07 2015 - 16:38:27 CDT

Hi,
  The two-radii cones weren't/aren't implemented by all renderers, which is
why they weren't documented up to this point. If you like I can add docs
for them with a warning about this for the time being.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 04:35:27PM +0000, Ebert Maximilian wrote:
> I will answer my own question. I looked through the source code of VMD and cone has an undocumented option radius2. Maybe you should add this to:
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.9.2/ug/node129.html
>
>
> so the command I was looking for was:
>
> draw cone {2 0 0} {3 0 0} radius 0.3 radius2 0.1
>
> Greetings,
>
> Max

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