CRYSTALS
manuals

Contents

+ Frequently Asked Questions + Crystals Primer + Crystals User Guide + Crystals Manual + Cameron Manual + Menu and toolbar + Getting Started
Crystals Worked Examples
1. Getting Started
2. Solving And Refining A Routine Structure In Crystals 3. Poor Quality Data - Tetraphenylene 4. Spacegroup Quiz
+ Index

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Crystals Worked Examples

Chapter 1: Getting Started

1.1: Starting the program
1.2: Customising CRYSTALS to suit your screen size
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1.1: Starting the program


 

Double click on the CRYSTALS icon on the desktop, the "Browse for Folder" dialog will be displayed. The selected directory should already be demo, if it isn't then browse to find it: c:\wincrys\demo\demo, highlight it and then click OK.

CRYSTALS will start, and the demo / workshop dialog will open automatically.

Choose Cyclo from the list of workshop structures and click "Open workshop structure".

We will use this starting point throughout the workshop to choose different starting structures. To bring this dialog either close and restart CRYSTALS, or choose "Demo" from the "Help" menu.

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1.2: Customising CRYSTALS to suit your screen size

It is important to be able to read the text output in the left hand pane of the CRYSTALS window.

From the menus choose "Appearance"->"Set Text Font" Choose the smallest font size that you can read.

I would recommend Lucida Console in size 7.

Now make sure that you can see the full width of a line of text in the output pane. You can drag the bar situated between the text area on the left and the CRYSTALS logo screen on the right, to adjust the relative sizes of these two areas.

The area on the right will eventually display a representation of the atomic co-ordinates, so leave it at least a little bit of space.


© Copyright Chemical Crystallography Laboratory, Oxford, 2011. Comments or queries to Richard Cooper - richard.cooper@chem.ox.ac.uk Telephone +44 1865 285019. This page last changed on Wednesday 27 April 2011.