Hide

hide conceals atom and bond representations for a certain selection or other graphical objects like distances.

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  Some normal scene, notice the waters shown as spheres

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  hide spheres issues and the spheres are now hidden.

The available representations are:

• lines
• spheres
• mesh
• ribbon
• cartoon
• sticks
• dots
• surface
• labels
• nonbonded
• nb_spheres

USAGE

hide representation [,object]
hide representation [,(selection)]
hide (selection)

PYMOL API

cmd.hide( string representation="", string selection="")

EXAMPLES

# hides all lines
hide lines,all

# hides all ribbons
hide ribbon

# hides all distances
hide dashes

# hides sticks in protA and all residues that aren't in the range of 40-65
hide sticks, protA and not i. 40-65

# hide hydrogen atoms
hide (hydro)  # or hide (h.)

SEE ALSO

Show, Enable, Disable, Suspend_updates