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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2013 - 04:52:20 CDT

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Hamed Mortazavi
<hmd.mortazavi_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> to visualize my polymer molecule I run a patch on VMD to create bonds
> between beads. this works well, but if I save the state and load it from
> .vmd file not only successive beads in polymer but all are shown bonded
> together. is this a mistake in patch or settings in VMD?

if you save the state in VMD you save the "visualization state", you
do *not* save the structure or coordinates. if you load the state back
into VMD, it will try to re-read the original coordinate files. if you
change the structure/topology and/or coordinates, you have to save
those as well to the corresponding files (or rather make copies of the
originals and then save).

axel.

>
> Best,
>
> Hamed. 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.