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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2005 - 16:28:37 CST

Gavin,
  You can increase the thickness of the non-wireframe representations
using the representation controls in the graphical representations window.
If you're having trouble with the old "cartoon", I'd suggest that you
consider upgrading to VMD 1.8.3, and use the "NewCartoon" which eliminates
the gaps that you're having trouble with.
I think that making a solid model from the NewCartoon rep is the best way
to go. Let me know how this proceeds, I'm curious to know how it turns out.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:38:04PM -0500, Hui-Hsu Tsai wrote:
>
> Hi VMD users,
>
> My question is quite simple: in cartoon model, there are some
> "unstructural motifs" which connect two 2nd structural motifs.
> Is there any command in VMD I can increase the
> thickness of these "unstructural motifs"?
>
> Currently, we are printing the real 3D model generaled from VMD using
> the so called z-printer or 3D printer. we generated the VRML-2 file of our
> proteins from VMD and send this file to z-printer.
> We can sucessfully print/construct the 3D VDW model.
> However, we fail to print/construct the 3D cartoon model. It broke into
> pieces. The main reason is the lines connecting two secondary structural
> motifs are too thin (too weak to support the the weight of the 2nd
> structural motif).
>
> Gavin
> 

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