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CrystalMaker - 8.2.2

Build, display, manipulate crystal and molecular structures.

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Current Version:	8.2.2
Release Date:	2009-09-14
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	316
Downloads (all versions):	16,139
Price:	$425.00

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Product Description:

Welcome to CrystalMaker: an award-winning Mac program for building, displaying and manipulating all kinds of crystal and molecular structures.

Easy and Flexible. Spectacular, photo-realistic models are just one drag-and-drop away! CrystalMaker can auto-detect major file formats and generate structures right away. All aspects of the model can be extensively customized, with a wide range of photo-realistic or stylized

Download for Demo:
http://www.crystalmaker.com/downloads/crystalmaker_demo_mac.zip

What's new in this version:

CrystalMaker 8.2 is a major new version featuring spectacular 3D imaging - now presented in colour, for the first time. Crystals and molecules can be manipulated in mid air, using just an inexpensive pair of red/blue stereo spectacles. The latest version, 8.2.2, includes two new file export options designed to make it easier to save coordination data, plus miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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The best crystallographic program for Macintosh - Version: 8.0.2, 1/24/2008 12:00AM PST

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info689

I have used CrystalMaker and CrystalDiffract for almost a year now (for inorganic solid state crystal structures). To sum it up - it is very intuitive and it has been stable up to now.

Upsides:
- It is very easy to integrate it with SHELX (e.g. using TextMate scripts) or GSAS (Rietveld refinements), so the overall workflow is much quicker than using WinGX/Diamond on Windows computers, for example.

- The new Spotlight integration is quite useful (although some search tags do not seem to work properly yet), especially if you have got lots of crystal structures on your hard disk.

- The V8.x interface leaves much less clutter on your desktop than the previous version (especially if you are using Leopard's Spaces).

- Renderings for both publications and presentations are magnificent.

- Nice integration of CrystalDiffract (high quality simulation of powder patterns).

- Much more intuitive than Diamond (Windows) for ordinary crystal structures.

- Cambrige Soft has got special concessions for grad/undergraduate students, which makes the price tag quite reasonable.

- Great customer support.

Downsides:
- Lack of visualising magnetic structures.

- Lack of visualising electronic structures / 3-dimensional electron density maps (e.g. from Wien2K or STUTTGART-LMTO)

Hopefully, these missing features will be added sometime in the future.

Oh so sexy - Version: 6.3.6, 7/14/2004 10:51AM PST

loehman

But way too expensive for a poor high school teacher. However, I'm sure the demo version would be enough to demonstrate 3-D structure.

I have discovered… - Version: 6.1.1, 2/22/2003 11:15AM PST

Cryopad

CrystalMaker at an International Conference for crystallographers some years ago. Since then, it has been regularely improved and this OS X release is great apart the fact that it doesn't handle efficiently magnetic structures.