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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2006 - 10:35:57 CST

Hi,
  That's odd, that sequence of operations certainly works for me.
The error you're getting is the one you'd get if there was a carriage
return between the "$all" and the "moveby". If you had typed an incorrect
atomselect subcommand, I would have expected VMD to print the usage info for
the atomselect commands. Can you double-check and make sure you didn't
accidentally break up that command in your script file, or when typing
in the console?

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:36:43AM -0600, Mohamed Osman wrote:
> I am using moveby command to shift coordinates of all atoms in pdb file.
> Here is how I use it in a tcl file
>
> set all [atomselect top all]
> $all moveby {0 0 10}
> $all writepdb outfile.pdb
>
> I get an error message: invalid command name "moveby"
>
> Info) Analyzing structure ...
> Info) Atoms: 2685
> Info) Bonds: 2764
> Info) Residues: 345
> Info) Waters: 2
> Info) Segments: 6
> Info) Fragments: 9 Protein: 4 Nucleic: 0
> 0
> atomselect0
> invalid command name "moveby"
>
> Thanks
> Mohamed Osman 

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