XtalDraw
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/xtal/group/software.htm

Downs Robert, University of Arizona

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XtalDraw is interactive Windows-based software that draws crystal and molecular structures as ball and stick, polyhedral, and thermal ellipsoid representations. The software comes with a large set of datafiles and can read the XtalDraw datafiles, but it can also read the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database data files. The site features images and animations of crystal structures, and the software can be freely downloaded from the site.

Part of the Cutting Edge collection. The NAGT/DLESE On the Cutting Edge project helps geoscience faculty stay up-to-date with both geoscience research and teaching methods.

This resource is referenced here:

• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography: Visualization Software
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Spinel
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Alpha Quartz
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Calcite
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Biotite
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Sanidine
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Magnesium Metal
• Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Visualization: Tools for Creating Visualizations
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Cesium Chloride
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Wurtzite
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Diamond
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Olivine
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Tremolite
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Graphite
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Halite
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Diopside
• Integrating Research and Education:Crystallography:Directed Discovery of Crystal Structures: Forsterite

Subject: Geoscience:Geology
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional