That's going to rotate the atoms about a specific molecular axis. Do you
want it to rotate about a specific window axis, regardless of how the model
is oriented? Is that the problem? There might be a way of doing that with
quaternions.
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Alexander Rose <alexander.r...@weirdbyte.de
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >From the manual
>
> "set allowRotateSelected FALSE
>
> When set TRUE, this parameter allows user rotation of the molecule
> containing the selected atom using the mouse (holding ALT down while
> dragging). The coordinates of the rotated molecule will be sightly degraded
> in this process."
>
>
> I would like to rotate an arbitrary set of atoms using the mouse and
> currently "set allowRotateSelected TRUE" is the closest thing I found, but
> works only for a single complete molecule.
>
> I started to implement something myself using bind and rotateSelected and
> in principle it works:
>
> bind "CTRL-ALT-LEFT" "rotateSelected axisangle {1 1 1 _DELTAX}"
>
> but its not quite as "set allowRotateSelected TRUE". I think I need to make
> the rotation angle depended on the current view?! Any suggestions?
>
>
> Best
> Alexander
>
>
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