RASMOL Command Summary
- Click File, Open, select (click) any file (as c2h5oh.pdb),
click OK. (To Open a File)
- Click Display, Ball & Stick (or Spacefill,
your choice) (To Improve Viewability)
- Left-Click-Drag across the face of the molecule. (To ROTATE).
(Alternately, try clicking and holding down one of the slidebar arrows!)
- Click File, Close before you File, Open another molecule.
- Right-Click-Drag (to TRANSLATE the molecule).
- Shift-Left-Click-Drag (slowly, top to bottom). (ZOOM or enlargen
the display)
- Shift-Right-Click-Drag (slowly, left to right) (Z-ROTATE)
- Type "background white" on the keyboard. You won’t
see anything as you type, but when you press Enter, the screen should
go white. If not, you misspelled something. Try again. You may try other
basic colors as red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta, orange, or violet.
White, however, will save you a lot of printer toner/ink, when you print.
- File, Print, OK (to PRINT the RASMOL window directly to an attached
printer).
- Edit, Copy will put the RASMOL image into the "clipboard."
Next, open the word processor or graphics program of your choice. Edit,
Paste the image into a document.
- Export, GIF or BMP (to write a graphics file). The *.GIF and
*.BMP formats can then be opened and used with MS Paint and many other
programs.