Re: [PyMOL] feature request: supercell construction

2010-04-15 Thread Thomas Holder
Hi Nick, > I noticed a few things: > > - when I run "supercell 2, 1, 1" I get another cell outline along the > a axis, but no atoms are shown in the second cell. Do I have to run > another command for them to show up? the script does not create symmetry mates. The "symexp" command can create sym

Re: [PyMOL] feature request: supercell construction

2010-04-14 Thread Nicolas Bock
Hi Thomas, thanks! I noticed a few things: - when I run "supercell 2, 1, 1" I get another cell outline along the a axis, but no atoms are shown in the second cell. Do I have to run another command for them to show up? - when I run the command again with other values for a, b, or c, nothing chang

Re: [PyMOL] feature request: supercell construction

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas Holder
def supercell(a=1, b=1, c=1, object=None, color='blue'): ''' DESCRIPTION Draw a supercell, as requested by Nicolas Bock on the pymol-users mailing list (Subject: [PyMOL] feature request: supercell construction Date: 04/12/2010 10:12:17 PM (Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:12

[PyMOL] feature request: supercell construction

2010-04-12 Thread Nicolas Bock
It would be great if pymol had support for constructing and displaying a supercell: For data files that support crystallographic information, e.g. pdb, pymol can already display the unit cell (show cell). It would be great if one could easily display multiple copies of the unit cell, along the lin