From: Stefan Doerr (stefdoerr_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 19 2015 - 07:57:12 CST

You can make the representation just for the first molecule and use
Extensions->Visualization->Clone Representation tool which will copy this
representation to all molecules.

You could also write a TCL script that does it.
Just enable tcl command logging from File -> Log Tcl Commands to Console
and see what commands it spits out when you change the representations and
paste them into a script with a for loop over all molecules.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:26 PM, jing liang <jingliang2015_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> I have multiple pdb files of an enzyme called frame1.pdb, frame2.pdb, ...
> and
> so on.
>
> I want to display the whole structure of the enzyme with "lines" but some
> amino acids and ions with "cpk" ("segid ami" and "segid ion") .
>
> Dealing with a single frame is not a problem because I can use the graphics
> representation tool to select the drawing method "lines" for the enzyme
> and then use the "cpk" after creating a new representation.
>
> My problem is when I have to do the same for 30 frames. What I am doing is
> to open the frames with
>
> vmd -f frame1.pdb -f frame2.pdb -f frame3.pdb ... -f frame30.pdb
>
> and then I need to do the steps I already mentioned with the graphics
> representation tool.
>
> Is there any way to accomplish this task more efficiently? Is it possible
> to
> do that with the tcl scripting of VMD?
>
> thanks.
>
>
>
>