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Drawing Styles |
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The exact appearance of the various drawing styles such as ribbons or cylinders can be customised either:
In the Preferences window choose Drawing style from the Model display folder to set the global parameters
From the model display object icon menu (click ) select Molecule drawing style to set parameters for that display object.
Shown below are the effects of changing some of the parameters:
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Oval ribbons
drawing style: Ribbons protein ribbon width: 1.5 strand arrow width: 2.2 worm width: 0.2 ribbon style: oval |
Chunky ribbons
drawing style: Ribbons protein ribbon width: 0.5 strand arrow width: 0.9 worm width: 0.3 ribbon style: flat |
Fancy ribbons
drawing style: Ribbons protein ribbon width: 1.5 strand arrow width: 2.2 worm width: 0.3 ribbon style: fancy |
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Oval ribbons, shortened loops
drawing style: Ribbons protein ribbon width: 1.0 strand arrow width: 1.5 worm width: 0.2 ribbon style: oval loops shortened: YES |
Fat worms
drawing style: Worms worm width: 0.4 |
Fat worms, shortened loops
drawing style: Worms worm width: 0.4 loops shortened: YES |
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Ball and stick
drawing style: Ballnstick |
Ball and grey stick
drawing style: Ballnstick stick colour: grey (Colour scheme menu) ballnstick cylinder thickness: 0.3 ballnstick ball radius VdWs*: 0.25 |
Fat cylinders
drawing style: Cylinders cylinder width: 0.4 |
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Little spheres
drawing style: Spheres sphere size VdWs*: 0.7 |
Big spheres
drawing style: Spheres sphere size VdWs*: 1.0 |