Continuous rotation about y (= vertical/up) with speed corresponding to click position.
Continuous rotation about x (= horizontal) can be invoked with the instruction
CROTX 0.1.
Continuous rotation about z (= perpendicular) and in color can be invoked with the
instruction
CROTZ COLOR 0.1.
1.4.2.19 – Stepwise Rotation About Z
Stepwise rotation about Z (perpendicular to image). Step size and direction based on click
position.
1.4.2.20 - STEPWISE ROTATION ABOUT Y
Stepwise rotation about the horizontal axes (Y).
Clicking in the central area gives small rotation steps.
Clicking further from the center corresponds with larger rotation steps
Clicking left from the center or right from the center determines the sense of rotation.
1.4.2.21 - STEPWISE ROTATION ABOUT X
Stepwise rotation about the horizontal axes (X).
Clicking in the central area gives small rotation steps.
Clicking further from the center corresponds with larger rotation steps
Clicking left from the center or right from the center determines the sense of rotation.
1.4.2.22 - COLOR OPTIONS
The assignment of COLOR to plot-items can be done at four levels:
1. Global Color
2. Per Atom-type
3. Per Residue-type
4. Per ARU
Option 1: Global Color
Keyboard Instruction:
COLOR
BLACK/RED/GREEN/BLUE/YELLOW/ORANGE/VIOLET/BROWN
In general, bond & atom outlines will be drawn with this default color.
Option 2: Per Atom Type
Color assignment is done on the basis of element-type.
1.4.2.23 - DECORATION TOGGLE
The boundary information (title, angles etc) may be switched (on/off) by clicking on
DECORATION. Publication figures need DECORATION OFF.
1.4.2.24 - Graphics (META-FILE, POVRAY, RASMOL)
PLUTON will generate by default an Encapsulated PostScript file of the image displayed on
the DISPLAY by clicking on the leftmost box button (indicated with 'EPS'). The EPS
default may be changed into HPGL with a meta-code selection button on the PLATON
opening window, or with one of the keyboard instructions
SET META HPGL.
In the PLUTON mode, there are two interfaces available to other molecular graphics
programs.
- Clicking on '
Pov' will generate a file '
.pov' suitable for the ray-tracing program POVRAY.
POVRAY will be executed when implemented. The
name.pov file that is generated by
PLUTON may be edited off-line to change/add various functions (e.g. to change certain
colours), and run as a shell command similar to:
povray +D +W1280 +H1024 +I name.pov
The default Background color is 'SummerSky'. Other choises can be set through the
instruction
set ipr 174 n, (n = 0:SummerSky, n=1: Black, n=2:White, n=3:Scarlet).
Alternatively, this parameter can be set in the auxiliary sub-menu #5
- Clicking on '
Ras' will generate a 'PDB'structured '
.ras' file suitable for the Molecular
Visualisation Program RASMOL. RASMOL will be executed when implemented.
The executables 'povray' and 'rasmol' are assumed to be globally accessible. Alternatively, a
path may be given in environment variables.
e.g. 'setenv POVEXE '/usr/local/bin/povray'
'setenv RASEXE '/usr/local/bin/rasmol'
1.4.2.25 - Reset & END Buttons
Clicking on RESET will bring up a default STICK style PLOT. Return to main PLATON
menu with
END
1.4.3 – PLUTON SUB-MENU #1 (Contents)
1.4.3.2 - DISPLAY TEXT Toggle
Special text at user defined locations can be introduced with the
NewText option. Its actual
display is controlled with the Display Text Toggle.
1.4.3.3 - NEW TEXT
This feature allows for the addition a text to a desired position. The text is first placed in a
default position after entering it from the keyboard and should be moved to its desired
position later on with the MOVE TEXT menu instruction. The default character size can be
changed by clicking in the TEXT SIZE menu box and will be effective with the next
NEWTEXT text entry. The size of existing text can be changed by turning the
CHTEXTSIZE option on. Existing text can be deleted with the DELETE TEXT menu item.
The DISPLAY TEXT option allows for an on/off text feature.
1.4.3.4- MOVE TEXT
This option allows for the repositioning of free text added to the plot via the NEW TEXT
option.
1.4.3.5 - TEXT SIZE
The text size of the text to be entered via
NEW TEXT can be set by clicking in the
appropriate menu box.
1.4.3.6 - DELETE TEXT
Text that is no longer wanted can be deleted with this option.
1.4.3.7 - CHANGE TEXT SIZE
The size of existing text items can be changed to the current
TEXTSIZE size with this
option.
1.4.3.8 - DELETE ATOMS From RES File
This feature is used to eliminate unwanted atoms from a '
.res' file and is used to prune '.res'
files containing raw peak lists generated by structure determination packages (e.g. DIRDIF,
SIR & SHELXS). DELETE only works in the true PLUTON mode (i.e. not via
PLUTONauto because the '.res' data structure is replaced by a '.spf' structure) as intended. In
all other cases it is redefined into the non-destructive EXCLUDE instruction. The pruned
data are written to a file with the extension '
.new' .
1.4.3.9 - ATOM RENAMING in RES-FILES
PLUTON can be used for the interactive atom renaming for atom names in '
.res' files.
A new file (with extension
.new) including the changes is written only under certain
conditions:
1.
PLUTON should have been called directly from the command line, either via an alias
'
pluton', '
platon -p' or via the '
toPLUTON' option in the PLATON opening menu.
The
PLUTONauto button will
not work because not the
.res but an ad-hoc derived
(non-res style)
.eld (SPF) file will be read.
2.
The input file must be recognized as '
shelx.res' format type (i.e. include a FVAR
instruction).
There are three options to RENAME atoms
1. keyboard_instruction (mode 1)
e.g. RENAME C100 C1 C150 C2 C5 P1 This will change C100 into C1 etc.
2. keyboard_instruction (mode 2)
Just giving the instruction RENAME. That will initiates a loop through all atoms for
renaming. The current atom under consideration for renaming is accompanied with a
label in RED. The new name may be then typed. Hitting the RETURN key leaves the
