Hello Alan, I don't think it's possible to draw arbitrary figures. However, your idea about using atomss to construct your figure, then use some RasMol script commands to give the carbons a different appearance from the rest of the structure. As for the scripting documentation, I'd suggest downloading the RasMol manual from http://klaatu.oit.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/getras.htm#rasmanual and then having a look at our Chime Scripting tutorial page (http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/spttutor/tutorial.html). Hope this helps! Mitch At 11:43 PM 8/5/96 +0100, Alan Arnold wrote:
Greetings from a far-flung ex-colony,
To all Chime gurus: Is it possible to draw a series of lines on top of a displayed molecule using the Rasmol scripting capabilities of Chime?
For example, I'd like a hexagon to be drawn over a six-membered Si/Al ring in a zeolite that is diplayed as a live molecule, or display the sides of a tetrahedron encompassing a SiO4 unit, when a user presses one of those little crossed form butons.
I guess that an alternative is to manually construct a fake hexagon/tetrahedron residue in the chime data file and have the script highlight these dummy atoms.
Any examples out there before I reinvent the wheel?
BTW, where is the chime scripting documentation hidden?
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