“as” turns on and off atom and bond representations.

The available representations are:

lines spheres mesh ribbon cartoon sticks dots surface labels extent nonbonded nb_spheres slice

as representation [, selection ]

representation = lines, spheres, mesh, ribbon, cartoon, sticks, dots, surface, labels, extent, nonbonded, nb_spheres, slice, extent, slice, dashes, angles, dihedrals, cgo, cell, callback, or everything

selection = string {default: all}

as lines, name ca or name c or name n 

as ribbon 

“selection” can be an object name “as” alone will turn on lines and nonbonded and hide everything else.

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