Editing Show (section)

=Details=
<gallery widths="125px" heights="125px" align="right">
Image:Ray2.png|Example of a shown surface.
Image:Ray_trace_gain2.png|Ball and sticks shown.
Image:Mesh_w05.png|A cartoon inside a mesh shown.
</gallery>

The '''Show''' command, is one of the most often used commands in PyMOL.  For example, you can ''show'' certain atoms as ''[[Lines]]'' or ''[[Sticks]]'' or ''[[Cartoon]]s'' or any of the following representations: 
*[[lines]]
*[[spheres]]
*[[mesh]]
*[[ribbon]]
*[[cartoon]]
*[[sticks]]
*[[dots]]
*[[surface]]
*[[Label|label]]
*[[extent]]
*[[nonbonded]]
*[[nb_spheres]]
*[[slice]]
*[[cell]]

==USAGE==
 show
 show reprentation [,object]
 show reprentation [,(selection)]
 show (selection)

==PYMOL API==
<source lang="python">
cmd.show( string representation="", string selection="" )
</source>

==EXAMPLES==
====Example====
<source lang="python">
# show the backbone using lines.
show lines,(name ca or name c or name n)
</source>

====Example====
<source lang="python">
# show the ribbon representation for all objects
show ribbon
</source>

====Example====
<source lang="python">
# show all hetero atoms as spheres
show spheres, het
</source>

====Example====
<source lang="python">
# show only polar hydrogens
hide everything, ele h
show lines, ele h and neighbor (ele n+o)
# hide nonpolar hydrogens
hide (h. and (e. c extend 1))
</source>

Note:

The above code hides all representations of nonpolar hydrogens, including surface representations, resulting in broken surface representations.  It might be better to remove the nonpolar hydrogens instead:

<source lang="python">
# show only polar hydrogens
hide everything, ele h
show lines, ele h and neighbor (ele n+o)
# remove nonpolar hydrogens
remove (h. and (e. c extend 1))
</source>

==NOTES==
'''selection''' can be an object name.

'''show''' alone will turn on lines and nonbonded for all bonds.

'''show cell''' will show the triclinic unit cell, provided it's described in the PDB. For cell packing, you need a script.  See [[:Category:Script_Library|The Script Library]] or [http://adelie.biochem.queensu.ca/~rlc/work/pymol/ Robert Campbell's Site]

==SEE ALSO==
[[Hide]], [[Enable]], [[Disable]], [[Suspend_updates]], [[Lines]], [[Cartoon]], [[Spheres]], [[Mesh]], [[Ribbon]], [[Sticks]], [[Dots]], [[Surface]], [[Label]], [[Extent]], [[Slice]], [[Cell]], [[Select]], [[Show_as]]

[[Category:Commands|Show]]
[[Category:View Module|Show]]