Hi, Please see the reference manual for discussion of the minimum image convention.
Otherwise, your report sounds like a bug in gmx solvate. Please open an issue at redmine.gromacs.org and attach a tarball of files that reproduce the issue. Mark On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:15 Seera Suryanarayana <paluso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear gromacs users, > > I have been trying to simulate the xtal structure which is homo tetramer > and each chain has more than 400 amino acids. after editconf where I have > used the cubic box with -c -d 1.0. After this command I have executed the > following command.. > > gmx solvate -cp 4pv1.gro -cs spc216.gro -o 4cp1_solv.gro -p topal.top > > and I got the error as .. > > Fatal error: > One of the box vectors has become shorter than twice the cut-off length or > box_yy-|box_zy| or box_zz has become smaller than the cut-off. > > When I checked the gromacs archive somewhere mentioned that violating > minimum image convention. I don't understand what does it mean. Kindly tell > me why this error is encountered and how do I resolve it? > > Thanks in advance > Surya > Graduate student > India. > -- > Gromacs Users mailing list > > * Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before > posting! > > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > > * For (un)subscribe requests visit > https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or > send a mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists * For (un)subscribe requests visit https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org.