Basic Operation of Jmol Applet

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Mouse Operation

Every action cna be achieved with one, two and three button mouse.

Function Main Button (Left) Middle Button Secondary Button (Right)
Open Jmol Menu click on Jmol logo or hold Ctrl while clicking   click
Rotate around X, Y drag    
Move along X,Y hold Shift while double-clicking and holding down on the second click for dragging double-click and holding down on the second click for dragging hold Ctrl while dragging
Rotate around Z hold Shift while dragging horizontally drag horizontally hold Shift while dragging horizontally (may fall on Mac's)
Zoom hold Shift while dragging vertically
or use mouse wheel
drag vertically  
Reset hold Shift while double-clicking away from the molecule double-click away from the molecule  

Selection of Schemes

Radio Button Controls

You can use the radio button controls shown at the foot of the applet window.

Contorol

Atoms are rendered as spheres based at the size of van der Waals radius of each element. "Off" corresponds to "Stick Model", "20%"corresponds to "Ball and Stick Model" and "100%" corresponds to "CPK (Spacefill) Model".

Jmol Menu

Jmol menu offers a wide assortment of options. Scheme is set using Style menu.

Style > Scheme > CPK Spacefill    (Ball and Stick, Sticks, Wireframe)

In the case of proteins, the menu to use is Structures.

Style > Structures > Backbone    (Off, Cartoon, Cartoon Rockets, Ribbons, Rockets, Strand, Trace)

Phenol Ribbon

CPK model of phenol (High definition image produced by POV-Ray)

Protein drawn with Cartoon option

Measurement of Distances and Angles

Slab - Cutting plane

Open the script dditor window. Type "slab on" and click the "Run" button.

Function Main button (Left)
Slab (slab from front) hold Ctrl + Shift while dragging vertically
Depth (slab from back) hold Ctrl + Shift while double-clicking and holding down on the second click for dragging vertically
Shift the slab hold Alt + Ctrl + Shift while dragging vertically

Example

Phenol Slab‹@”\
CPK model of phenol (High definition image produced by POV-Ray)
Cross section of phenol

Reference Web address

Refernce guide for Jmol command and scripting language :  http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/docs/?ver=11.0

Jmol web site :  http://jmol.sourceforge.net

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