Hi Jon, this can be done by enabling "cartoon_trace_atoms".
set cartoon_trace_atoms show cartoon You can also enable it for your particular object, if you have other objects loaded for which the setting should not apply. set cartoon_trace_atoms, 1, yourcaonlyobject Hope that helps. Cheers, Thomas On 11/15/2012 10:14 AM, Jonathan Grimes wrote: > > I have a pdb file, with only Alpha carbon atoms. > > I want to display the secondary structure. Given that pymol > uses the backbone to define SS elements is there a way > i can draw the cartoon. > > i have tried explicitly defining ss using alter command > but without success. i want to avoid generating the backbone > using an external piece of software. > > thanks > jon > > Dr. Jonathan M. Grimes, > NDM Senior Reseach Fellow > University Research Lecturer > Division of Structural Biology > Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics > University of Oxford > Roosevelt Drive, > Oxford OX3 7BN, UK > > Email: jonat...@strubi.ox.ac.uk, Web: www.strubi.ox.ac.uk > Tel: (+44) - 1865 - 287561, FAX: (+44) - 1865 - 287547 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net