Learn about CrystalMaker in these detailed audio-visual tutorials
Latest Videos (CrystalMaker 11):
What's New in Version 11? [08:09]
Interface Tour [21:01]
Hand Tracking for macOS [04:46]
Legacy Videos (CrystalMaker 10):
Overview [08:41]
Interface Tour [12:16]
Structures Library [19:28]
What's New in 10.4? [19:31]
Building a New Crystal [13:16]
Building a New Molecule [05:28]
Atomic Radii & Colours [06:50]
Selection Tools [06:15]
Measurement [06:49]
Annotation [06:45]
Seeing Your Structure in 3D [06:42]
Preferences [07:06]
Auto Rotation & Video [07:14]
Lattice Planes [04:29]
Molecular Crystals [12:12]
The Distance Explorer [03:59]
Pair Distribution Functions [07:56]
Spherical Clusters [03:02]
Disordered Sites [08:46]
Showing Cavities [03:36]
Building Massive Polyhedra [07:53]
Volumetric Data [10:01]
Crystal Surfaces [07:42]
Domain Boundary [03:48]
Place Molecule Into Crystal [05:58]
Leap Motion Controller [04:20]
Creating an Animation [05:30]
Visualizing a Trajectory [04:45]
Diffraction [08:21]
Structural Interpolation [01:15]
Live Powder Diffraction [07:41]
Live Intensity Mode [03:36]
Galleries:
Structures Gallery [05:46]
Animation Gallery [01:12]
Analcime Fly-Through [00:41]
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Getting started with a CrystalMaker X document window: a guide to the interface essentials.
CrystalMaker X includes an integrated library of over 1200 structures, each with notes, metadata and animated previews. This tutorial shows how you you can use the Library Browser interface to browse or search structures.
Building a new crystal from scratch. Use the Crystal Editor to define sites, then generate bonds and polyhedra, change colours, model types.
Synchronizing and animating the structural behaviour of quartz. This tutorial illustrates how to create an animation and save it as a video file (QuickTime on Mac or AVI on Windows).
Placing a molecule onto a crystal surface, then combining the two into a supercell.
How to edit atomic radii, switch between element tables and configure your defaults.
Using the Distance Explorer to understand the range of inter-atomic distances in an unknown structure.
Exploring volumetric data: different representations and data ranges.
Loading, optimizing and measuring a molecular crystal.
Visualizing two oriented domains in the same window.
Adding multiple lattice planes to the same crystal.
Building massive polyhedra to simplify a complex framework structure.
Annotating your structure with atom labels, bond labels, textboxes, lines and arrows.
Simulating diffraction properties for a displayed crystal, via CrystalDiffract and SingleCrystal.
Selecting atoms or groups of atoms; isolating an area of interest in a complex structure.
Measurement tools in CrystalMaker X.
Rotating and scaling your structure using the Leap Motion 3D Controller (from 10.5, Windows only).
How to save or edit preferences using the Preferences Panel - and also via the Model and Rendering inspectors.
Visualizing a spherical cluster of atoms to show coordination environments, or to build a nanocrystal.
Building a new molecule by pointing-and-clicking with the mouse, then relaxing its structure.
Using the Cavity Finder to locate large cavities within a porous structure, and to display appropriately-sized translucent spheres at the centre of each cavity.
CrystalMaker provides two 3D viewing modes: Stereo Pair and Red/Blue Stereo. We explain how to use these and how to control the visual effects - including spectacular "out-of-the-screen" 3D!
CrystalMaker 10.4 introduces a new "Live Powder Diffraction Mode", designed to work seamlessly with CrystalDiffract 6.8 or later.
Learn the Top 10 new features in CrystalMaker 10.4
CrystalMaker Overview: a quick visual guide to some of the capabilities of this software.
"Live Intensity Mode" with SingleCrystal 4 (requires CrystalMaker 10.5 or later)
Interpolation between two end-member structures to create a smooth animation
Visualizing a simulation trajectory: using the Playback Controls to rapidly "scrub" through a sequence, then synchronizing and exporting a video.
Visualizing disordered sites in a supercell (requires CrystalMaker 10.6.1 for Windows or 10.6.3 for Mac or later).
A gallery of rotating crystals and molecules - built with CrystalMaker. (No audio.)
A gallery of animating crystal structures, showing phase transformations and lattice dynamics. (No audio.)
Flying through the crystal structure of Analcime: a zeolite mineral. (No audio.)
An introduction to Pair Distribution Functions - and how to simulate them (requires CrystalMaker 10.7 or later)
Customizing auto-rotation - and exporting Rotation Movies (requires CrystalMaker 10.8 or later)
Creating a Crystal Surface
Learn what's new in CrystalMaker 11
Getting started with a CrystalMaker 11 document window: a guide to the interface essentials.
A.I.-Powered Hand Tracking for Mac: Use your FaceTime camera to rotate & scale with simple hand gestures.