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CrystalMaker - 6.1.1

crystal & molecular structure visualization

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Version 6.1.1:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	6.1.1
Release Date:	2003-02-21
License:	Update
Downloads (version 6.1.1):	256
Downloads (all versions):	16,188
Price:	$350.00

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Product Description:

CrystalMaker makes it easy to build, display, and manipulate all kinds of crystal and molecular structures. A wide range of input data formats are supported, and a sophisticated data editor takes care of all your spacegroup and symmetry settings. Bonding and polyhedra can be automatically defined - up to the maximum limit of 20000 atoms. CrystalMaker's display capabilities are unrivalled at the price, providing real-time photo-realistic graphics, with the option of breathtaking 3D stereo (red/blue glasses supplied). Models can be extensively customized, with a wide range of individual atom, bond and polyhedral styles - including stylized and line-art representations. CrystalMaker includes powerful manipulation tools, letting you design new structures - and even insert one structure into another. 99 undo levels plus multiple, user-defined views, encourage exploration and discovery.

What's new in this version:

CrystalMaker 6.1.1 builds on the extensive new functionality introduced in version 6.1. The new program includes faster manipulation of large polyhedral structures, greater tolerance of non-standard PDB data files, more flexible file import options (with the possibility of continuing if CrystalMaker queries a file's formatting), plus some bug fixes.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1.2 or higher

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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.