CrystalDesigner CrystalDesigner - Build, study and visualize all kinds of crystal structures.
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CrystalDesigner - Build, study and visualize all kinds of crystal structures. CrystalDesigner is a complete tool for building, studying and visualising all kinds of crystal structures on the Macintosh platform. CrystalDesigner is an ideal tool for both teaching and scientific studies. The software is intended to be used by students and teachers at colleges and universities, as well as in industrial research.From an educational point of view, CrystalDesigner will make the learning of crystallography more interesting and offer a faster way of understanding crystal structures in general. This is possible through the highly intuitive user interface and by all different ways of visualising a crystal structure.For scientists, CrystalDesigner is a lightning fast way of creating various graphic representations of a crystal structure. CrystalDesigner is a great guide tool for learning coordination around different sites and also for understanding the packing of a crystal structure.Main features of CrystalDesigner:Built in crystal structure data - 230 space groups and over 700 covalent, ionic and metallic radii are built into the software.User friendly input methods - The input fields for lattice parameters are adjusted for each crystal system. The program includes popup menus for selecting crystal systems, space groups, elements and lookup table for selecting a radius.Import and export of crystal structure data - Crystal structure data can be imported and exported from/to text files in CIF format.Multiple graph and crystal structure data application. For each crystal structure, multiple graph windows can be displayed. There is an active link between the crystal structure data and the graph windows. CrystalDesigner also allows several crystal structures to be open at the time.Export of graphics - Graphics can be exported in PICT format.Rendering options - The crystal structure may be displayed with parallel or perspective projection. Atoms, bonds and polyhedra may be displayed with; colour shading; single colour fill with black frame; white fill with colour frame; or as white fill with black frame. In addition it is possible to display the unit cell framework with or without label on the axes. The colour of the background can be freely chosen; it is also possible to turn off screen buffering to lower the memory requirements.Atom display options - It is possible to change the relative size, colour and appearance of the atoms. The colour can be changed for each element or for each atom position. The relative size can be adjusted from 1 to 100 %. Individualy selected atoms can be hidden .Bond display options - It is possible to change the relative size and colour of the bonds.Coordination polyhedra - Several methods for calculating coordination polyhedra bonds are available.Unit cell view - You can set the number of unit cells to be displayed in each crystal system direction. Real numbers are also allowed.Plane view - It is possible to display all lattice planes of a (hkl) set. The boundary of the plane displayed is defined by the first octant. If the plane is parallel with any of the crystal system axes, you can define how many unit cells that should be included in the specific direction.Coordination view - You may change the maximum variation in distance from the core atom to surrounding nearest neighbours. Alternatively you can change the radius within which the atoms are included.Molecule view - Displays a molecule defined by the atom positions.Rotation - The crystal structure may be rotated in any direction or around a fixed axis by dragging or by using the arrow keys. Alternatively you can set the view direction from a dialog box. The user may define the rotation centre.Measurement - Distance, angle and torsion angles between atoms can be measured by selecting different atoms in the drawing.Preference options- It is possible to change the default settings of: the graph windows, rendering options, rotation steps, element colours, element ratios, atom design, bond design, unit cell view parameters, plane view parameters and the coordination view parameters.Accelerated for Power Macintosh- Three different versions are available to take advantage of the different processor configurations on the Macintosh platform, including a version accelerated for Power Macintosh.Requirements of CrystalDesigner:2.5 Mb available memoryMacintosh with a 68020 CPU or higher.Limitations of CrystalDesigner:Runs on Mac OS Classic only What's New in This Release: Corner atoms of a co-ordination polyhedron may now be displayed and the size of the corner atoms may be adjusted by the end user Colour shaded polyhedra may be displayed alternatively with black frames, colour frames or as previously without frames. QuickTime movies may be created by adding frame by frame manually or by automatically recording all user actions. Additional rotation controls have been added to allow a continuously rotation or a rotation by a given angle of the graphics. Improved colour shading of atoms, bonds and polyhedra. Support for hairlines when printing. Online documentation (Mac OS 8.6 or higher). Export of co-ordination data Density of the crystal structure is automatically calculated and displayed by using the unit cell view (Calculations assume 100% occupancy). The distances to the nearest neighbours are now automatically displayed in the info window when an atom is selected by the end user. Reduced prices A hand full of bug fixes

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