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“Rotate/Translate Zone” from the “Model/Fit/Refine” menu allows manual movement of a zone. After pressing the “Rotate/Translate Zone” button, select two atoms in the graphics canvas to define a residue range 1, the second atom that you click will be the local rotation centre for the zone. The atoms selected in the moving fragment have the same alternate conformation code as the first atom you click. To actuate a transformation, click and drag horizontally across the relevant button in the newly-created “Rotation & Translation” dialog. The axis system of the rotations and translations are the screen coordinates. Alternatively 2, you can click using left-mouse on an atom in the fragment and drag the fragment around. Use Control Left-mouse to move just one atom, rather than the whole fragment. If you click Control Left-mouse whilst not over an atom then you can rotate the fragment using mouse drag. Click “OK” (or press Return) when the transformation is complete.
To change the rotation point to the centre of the intermediate atoms (rather than the second clicked atom), use the setting:
(set-rotate-translate-zone-rotates-about-zone-centre 1)