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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 24 2005 - 11:02:38 CDT

Hi all,
  Actually, you can tell VMD to skip the automatic bond determination
step if you're loading from a file format that doesn't contain bond info,
like this:
  mol new myfile.pdb autobonds 0

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:26:44PM +0200, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Ivan Degtyarenko wrote:
>
>
> dear ivan,
>
> ID> Dear All,
> ID>
> ID> When I load a file, is there a way to say to VMD in advance do not
> ID> compute/draw bonds, and load/represent only atoms as points?
>
> not in advance. for that you have to hack the sources.
>
> ID> I mean, not changing representaion after molecule is in, but in advance.
>
> the best you can do is to automatically delete the lines representation
> and replace it with another on loading the molecule. you can find an
> example for that at:
> http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/part7.html#chap9_sect2
>
> ID>
> ID> I looked through VMD maillist archive but haven't found an answer to my
> ID> question.
>
> well, that topic had come up before, but the best phrase to
> search for would have been 'default visualization'.
>
> regards,
> axel.
> ID>
> ID> Thanks in advance for you answer,
> ID> Ivan Degtyarenko
> ID>
> ID>
>
> --
>
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