Moving and rotating atoms and fragments

The user can select a subset of atoms by clicking the Select atom item on the MOLDRAW toolbar. After that, click with the left-button mouse all the needed atoms. When finished close the dialog. From this point on, all the rotations and translations will only act on the selected atoms.

The same procedure and effects applies for the selection of molecular fragments. This option is particularly useful for rapidly move part of a structure.

The same behaviour is obeyed by the Transform widget.

To select again the whole structure  click on left-button mouse the Select all keyword on the toolbar. 

Below is shown the result of translating and rotating the labelled atoms of the actual structure.

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