Mar 8 2010
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Introduction
How To?
Menu Options
Graphics Tools
 Change Represenations
 View Tools
 Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
 Move Buttons
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Tabs
Selections
Tables
Local DB
Sequences
Homology and Modelling
Working with Chemistry Tools
Chemsitry Menu
Docking
Ligand Editor
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ActiveICM
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tutorials
 
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4.3 Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
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The left mouse button can be mapped onto different graphics tools which can be selected from the right hand tool bar.
Note: (1) You can access many non-rotation modes directly from the rotation mode by using Middle and Right-mouse buttons, as well as by using the right, top and left margins of the graphics window. (2) You can access the rotation mode from non-rotation modes by pressing Ctrl.
  • rotation ( the default , press Ctrl if you in the non-rotation modes )
  • translation ( the middle mouse button in the rotation mode)
  • zooming in and out by dragging the mouse up and down (the left margin in the rotation mode, or use the mouse wheel)
  • Z-rotation ( the top margin in the rotation mode)
  • selecting by box ( the right mouse click in the rotation mode )
  • selecting by lasso ( Ctrl-draw lasso in the rotation mode )
  • picking out atoms ( a toggle )
  • picking out and labeling residues (a toggle)
  • moving the front clipping plane ( the top section of the right margin in the rotation mode)
  • moving the rear clipping plane ( the bottom section of the right margin in the rotation mode)
  • moving the slab ( the middle section of right margin in the rotation mode)
  • unclipping ( Ctrl-U )
  • rotating torsions (Ctrl-left-mouse-click in the rotation mode)
  • connect and unconnect separate molecules to movement controls
Many useful graphics tips are summarized here.

NOTE: Key mouse controls are summarized in the command line manual here http://www.molsoft.com/man/graphics-controls.html


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