Maia Cherney wrote:
> I can not move an atom or a group of atoms in the ligand
> (rotate/translate zone).
> The ctrl-click does not work (never works for me on several computers
> including Mac, PC etc).
Are you sure that you are not running into focus issues?
> To move an atom or several specific atoms should
> not be so difficult.
Without using Edit Chi angles or ctrl-click I can imagine that things
can be difficult.
> It looks like coot choses how many atoms to move in
> the chain. For a ligand, it moves the whole thing, but not its part.
>
Under Rotate/Translate, yes. Ctrl-click to move individual atoms.
> General torsion sometimes is ok, but with some ligands (or some bonds?)
> the whole ligand rotates around one bond (I want only part of the ligand
> to rotate around this bond).
>
partial-selection (or sub-selection) is not yet implemented.
> What is the problem with this?
Time? Skill?
> I like the way torsion works in xfit.
> Just click on *_2 _*atoms of a bond and the whole part of the molecule
> (next to the second click) rotates around this bond.
>
So do I understand that you major objection is that you have to click 4
times, not twice?
I rarely use Torsion general btw, Edit Chi angles covers the bases (and
is less clicks).
Paul.
(oh, and for new topics, please start a new thread, don't reply to
different topics otherwise your messages can get misplaced).
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