CrystalMaker is an award-winning Mac program for building, displaying and manipulating all kinds of crystal and molecular structures.
CrystalMaker makes it easy to load structural data and generate photo-realistic images, with the option of “out-of-the-screen” 3D images. Models can be displayed immediately in ball-and-stick, thermal ellipsoid, space-filling, wire-frame, stick and polyhedral model types. All aspects of the model can be extensively customized, with a wide range of photo-realistic or stylized “line-art” representations. See our online gallery for 3D movies, rotating crystals, animations, and slideshows.
What’s New
Version 10.6.4:
- Visualize Disordered Sites. This major new feature has been added to the Transform menu, allowing visualization of substitutional disorder in crystals.
- The new Transform > Visualize Disordered Sites command is active for crystal structures which include some degree of site disorder and/or vacancies. The command prompts for a multiplicity factor, then proceeds to generate a new structure - generally a supercell - with a random distribution of any disordered site occupants and/or vacancies.
- This new command may be useful for teaching purposes, in revealing disordered distributions graphically (the larger the supercell, the better) - and potentially also in preparing input for modelling programs, which require specific atoms at specific positions in a unit cell.
- As part of the new command, CrystalMaker calculates the minimum supercell size (multiplicity factor) required to show at least one atom of the least-common site occupant (occupants and vacancies with site fractions less than 0.001 are ignored). Note that, in general, higher multiplicities will give a closer approximation to the original formula, as well as a more "random" looking distribution.
- For more information about using this new command, please refer to the updated Online Help, User's Guide, and Video Tutorials.
- Faster Lattice Transformations. Major performance optimizations have been made to the Transform > Unit Cell commands (over 10x faster on our test systems).
- Miscellaneous. This version includes miscellaneous fixes and enhancements.
- Fixed a display issue on macOS "Big Sur" with Structures List thumbnail titles not centred correctly.
- Changing the plot range now correctly updates the depth fading of atoms.
Compatibility
macOS 10.12 or later
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