B3: How to change the appearance.

There are a number of ways of rendering (changing the appearance) a molecule in Jmol. The different options are found under the pop-up menu Style. Within "Style", there are two choices for changing the appearance, "Scheme" and "Structures". Both of these are described in detail below the Jmol image.

As an example, to draw the molecule with Van der Waals Radii you would select the following cascade of menu items from the pop-up menu:
Style ¬ Scheme ¬ CPK spacefill

  Scheme Structures
 
  • CPK Spacefill: Size of atoms = Van der Waals radii.
  • Ball & Stick: Draws Balls on the atoms.
  • Sticks: Similar to Wireframe, just thinker lines.
  • Wireframe: Draws bonds as one pixel thick lines.
  • Cartoons: A thicker type of ribbon drawing with arrowheads on the b-strands indicating chain direction.
  • Trace: A smoothed tracing through the Ca carbons. Colored by structure.
  • Backbone: Draws bonds between Ca carbons.
  • Cartoon: A thicker type of ribbon drawing with arrowheads on the b-strands indicating chain direction.
  • Cartoon Rockets: Different style of cartoons.
  • Ribbons: Backbone is a ribbon.
  • Rockets: helicies as cylinders, strands as flat arrows.
  • Strands: Ribbon with individual threads.
  • Trace: A smoothed tracing through the Ca carbons.