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From: zhangh1_at_umbc.edu
Date: Tue Mar 13 2007 - 10:23:37 CDT

Thanks for your help. Acturally I have lot's of similiar molecules, and
what I want to do is when I open another molecule, I want to make sure
it's the same orientation as the first one. But after I opened the
previous molecule with the saved state, and opened another molecule in the
same window, the orientation for the whole thing will be re-organized into
the intial state, losing all the saved orientation.
I appreciate any further suggestions regarding this.

>
> Hi,
> By far the easiest way is to create a VMD saved state that goes
> with the particular molecule you're loading. This also allows you to
> save not only the viewing orientation, but also the graphical
> representations
> and other view-related parameters you've setup. The saved state script
> itself
> will reload the molecule and restore these settings when you load it.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:39:45PM -0400, zhangh1_at_umbc.edu wrote:
>> Hi,
>> When I open a pdb structure in vmd, is there any easy way I can specify
>> the orientation of the molecule so that I can view from the same
>> speicfied
>> angle each time I open it?
>> Thanks!
>>
>
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