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Build Crystals & Molecules Fast! CrystalMaker enables you to build even the most complex crystal or molecular structures, quickly and easily. User-friendly data editors feature built-in spacegroup and symmetry handling - and provide automatic generation of bonds and coordination polyhedra. Ball-and-stick, space-filling, wire-frame, stick, polyhedral and thermal-ellipsoid models are immediately available - and can be extensively customized. 
CrystalMaker lets you display thermal ellipsoids with custom probability values and a choice of display styles - from plain "ORTEP", through to photo-realistic and translucent styles. Comprehensive Data Import CrystalMaker can import structural data from the world's leading crystallographic databases and file formats. These include the Cambridge Structural Database "FDAT" format, Protein Data Bank (PDB), Inorganic Structures Database (ICSD), plus Chem3D Cartesian, CCL, CSSR, CIF, GSAS, SHELX, STRUPLO, MacMolecule and CrystalMaker text files.  CrystalMaker can handle truly massive structures, such as this 500,000-atom computer simulation. Outstanding Graphics CrystalMaker features photo-realistic graphics with depth fading, perspective and extensive control over rendering settings. Enjoy spectacular "out-of-screen" 3D stereo, using the supplied red/blue stereo glasses. Simpler "line art" model styles - ideal for technical publications - are also available. High resolution graphics can be exported, at user-defined size/resolution, to a wide range of formats, including JPEG, TIFF, BMP and PNG. Multi-Structure Animation CrystalMaker is the first program of its kind to go beyond static structures, to let you explore structural behaviour quickly and easily. You can work with multiple structures in the same window, via the new View snapshot facility. Multi-structure CIF or PDB files can be loaded as a series of View thumbnails which can be animated, including full-screen slideshows and keyboard browsing. Manipulate and synchronize your set of Views, drag-and-drop thumbnails to rearrange them, then output the entire sequence as a QuickTime movie with the new Save as Movie command. Real-time Rotation Click-and-drag with the mouse, use the keyboard, or toolbar. View parallel to a lattice vector or plane normal. Continuous plot range settings - not limited to integral unit cell values - with virtually unlimited (2 billion) numbers of atoms, bonds and polyhedra. Auto-scale, auto-centre and zoom scaling. Interactive Bond Searching New bond editor previews coordination environments before you search. Display coordination clusters or shells; list bond distances or histograms on screen or save to disc. Measure bond distances, angles, torsion angles on screen. Calculate angles between planes and/or vectors. Multiple Undo CrystalMaker gives you up to 99 undo levels for each window - each with its own graphical thumbnail, displayed in "History" pane of the Overview window. Recently-opened files are stored in a separate "Files" pane, for quick reference, and the "Views" pane lets you bookmark custom views, and intermediate stages of your work - with the option of returning to these at any time, or for plotting in different windows. |
Manipulation Tools Move, detach, duplicate, hide, delete groups of atoms. Hide or repair molecular fragments - easy to isolate individual molecules. Display lattice planes in any orientation; slice the crystal to investigate surfaces or internal planes. Place new molecules into an existing structure. Digital Video 
Both Mac and PC versions let you record QuickTime movies as you work, with full control over frame
rates and compression settings. There is also fully-automatic
generation of QuickTime VR objects (ideal for multimedia
presentations). QuickTime is the de facto industry standard for
professional video, and free system/playback
software is available
on both Mac and Windows platforms.
Data Export Industry-standard CIF files, plus PDB, Chem3D Cartesian, MacMolecule 1.x, and CrystalMaker text files. Also export full listings of atomic coordinates, bond distances and angles! Diffraction Patterns Generate x-ray or neutron powder diffraction patterns from any displayed crystal - with a single menu command - using CrystalDiffract (free Demo version available). Visualize single-crystal diffraction patterns and reciprocal lattice sections, using our new SingleCrystal program, featuring real-time tilt control, display of distances and angles, and phase information in colour! Cross Platform Mac and Windows versions share the same binary file format, and similar feature sets, making cross-platform working and collaboration easy! Crystal Structures Libraries 
CrystalMaker is shipped with over 600 structures files, including
the major rock-forming minerals plus important technological phases
such as zeolites, superconductors and organic molecules. Each file
is fully-annotated, with views and model types carefully chosen to
highlight the salient structural features, and ready for immediate
display.
Quality Docmentation Using CrystalMaker is easy - but to make sure you get the most out of this program we provide a lavishly-illustrated setup guide, printed in full colour. 
The setup guide is complemented by a detailed user's guide, in PDF
format, for easy searching. The guide
includes a handy tutorial, chapters on the major program features, a
gallery of stunning images, summaries of text file formats,
appendices and a comprehensive index. The guide can be
accessed from CrystalMaker's Help menu.
CrystalMaker also features a highly comprehensive and cross-referenced online help system. Multimedia Extras The CrystalMaker CD-ROM is packed with extra resources which you can use in your teaching or research presentations. These include CrystalMaker-generated QuickTime movies (some in 3D stereo!), animations of phase transitions and QuickTime VR objects.
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