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How Can I Draw A Rod In Pymol?

I have a 3d system I visualize in pymol. I'm using the simple xyz file format where I give pymol the name of the molecule and it's x,y,z coordinates. 

name    x    y    z

I now want to draw some rods the rods connect two points, one on the y=0 plain and the other on the y=L plain. L is the size of my system in the y direction. How can I achieve this?

Note that I control the input file I give to pymol and I can add points to the file.

Thanks.

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updated by Vladimir Chupakhin Vladimir Chupakhin • written by yotama9 • yotama9

Hey, did you figure this out?

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written by bef1 • bef1

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Ctrl-shift left click on the first atom Ctrl-shift right click on the second atom Then control-T to bond (tie) them together. (from google search actually) or

you may use distance command http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Distance

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written by Vladimir Chupakhin Vladimir Chupakhin

This is not what I need. For two reasons: 1. I can't control the radius of the line. 2: The number that appear.

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written by yotama9 • yotama9

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