Manually Add Hydrogen Bonds
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Hi! Posting this as a feature request as I was not able to find a way do it. I would love to be able to customize bonds a little more: specifically, hydrogen bonds are only added via the Hydrogen Bond Finder tool, which can at times not recognize some non-covalent interactions that I would like to visualize. I imagine this could be done perhaps by manually adding a bond and adding the ability to modify its appearance to make them dashed, just like Atoms have a "Display" option to be set in the Inspector. Similarly, during Presentations when molecular fragments move, these dashed bonds could ideally behave like Hydrogen Bonds (appear only when donor and acceptor are close enough) instead of normal bonds (always show regardless of the distance).
I never looked into developing extensions for SAMSON, but if this sounds like some manageable problem and somebody is able to point me in the right direction, I would be happy to take a stab at it!
Best,
Nick -
Hi Nick, the new Interaction Designer (included with SAMSON) can now show different types of interactions in the 3D viewport:
Would this work for you? You can use the Home > Diagram command to activate this. -
Hi, thank you for the swift reply! I tried the Interaction Designer but it was not quite what I was looking for. The transition state structures I am working with seem more challenging for the software, and I would like to specify/toggle each interaction myself, if possible (including potentially deleting individual hydrogen bonds that are automatically generated by the Hydrogen Bond Finder tool).
