How Can I Draw A Rod In Pymol?

Question

[yotama9]

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.

[Sukhi Singh]

CrossPost: http://superuser.com/questions/512389/drawing-a-rod-using-pymol please include this info in future.

[bef1]

Hey, did you figure this out?

Answer 1

[Vladimir Chupakhin]

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

[yotama9]

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