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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
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.
Nice software, I… - Version: 6.1.0, 1/31/2003 08:50AM PST
Nolendil
wish I had a use for this. Get the demo at http://www.crystalmaker.co.uk/downloads/crystalmaker_demo_x.hqx
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.