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Introduction

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 moldisp_icon ) select Molecule drawing style to set parameters for that display object.

Shown below are the effects of changing some of the parameters:

oval chunky fancy
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
short fat worm short fat worm
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
bstick bstick grey fat cylinder
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
little spheres big spheres
Little spheres
drawing style: Spheres
sphere size VdWs*: 0.7
Big spheres
drawing style: Spheres
sphere size VdWs*: 1.0