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This page lists latest news and updates
to Crystal Studio.
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Free Vista Update Available for Version 9.0 Users!
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Crystal Studio Version 9.0 is compatible with Windows Vista operationg systems except for the WinHelp help system which is not supported by Windows Vista operating systems. We have implemented the HTML help system for Crystal Studio Version 9.0 which is supported by Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP and Vista operating systems. The HTML help update for Crystal Studio Version 9.0 is now available free of charge for earlier Version 9.0 users (before April 8, 2007). Interested earlier Version 9.0 users who need to use Crystal Studio on Windows Vista please contact us with your license number for a free update.
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Crystal Studio Version 9.0 Released on January 8, 2007.
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We are pleased to announce the new release of Crystal Studio Version 9.0 on January 8, 2007.
Version 9.0 was implemented with an expanded crystal structure database with reference sources and a nanotube (nanocone) creator.
Main new features for Version 9.0 include:
Expanded crystal structure database with reference sources. About 6,000 crystal structures for Enterprise edition and about 3500 crystal structures for Professional editions.
Creation of nanotube, nanocone, MWNT, MWNC and tube bundles.
End capped nanotubes.
Distorted nanotubes.
Import of Cartesian files (.cc1 or .xyz).
Export of Cartesian coordinate files (.xyz).
Refer to Version 9.0 features for more details via
this link.
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Save! Buy Version 9.0 at the Price of Version 8.0!
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We are running a sale of Crystal Studio Version 9.0 at the prices of Version 8.0 in January 2007 to mark the new release of Version 9.0.
V9 Lite: Regular USD598, Academic USD448.
V9 Standard: Regular USD998, Academic USD898.
V9 Professional: Regular USD1,298, Academic USD1,098.
V8 Enterprise: Regular USD1,498, Academic USD1,298
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Sales! Version 8.0 Standard at Half the Prices!
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We are running a sale of Crystal Studio Version 8.0 Standard at half the listed prices from September 1, 2006 until October 31, 2006. During this period, the prices for Crystal Studio Version 8.0 Standard are reduced as follows:
V8 Standard: Regular USD998, Now USD499.
V8 Standard: Academic USD898, Now USD449.
V8 Standard Group or Departmental License, Now USD999.
This special offer applies to the Standard edition only. The offer can not be taken together with other special offers.
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Crystal Studio Version 8.0 Released on January 1, 2006.
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We are pleased to announce the new release of crystal Studio Version 8.0 on January 1, 2006.
Version 8.0 was implemented with a start page for easy access to common commands and better looking new style menus with toolbar images.
Main new features for Version 8.0 include:
Start Page with common starting commands.
New style menus with toolbar images.
Simulation of neutron diffraction patterns.
Create atom vectors to indicate magnetic or dipole moments etc..
Preview 3D crystal structure in the crystal structure database form view.
The 3D view is splitted with a right window for summary or lists of objects.
Stereo view with left and right images for stereo viewing.
Ribbon model for macro-molecules. Available for Pro. and Ent. editions only.
Refer to Version 8.0 features for more details via
this link.
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Save! Buy Version 8.0 at the Price of Version 7.0!
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We are running a sale of Crystal Studio Version 8.0 at the prices of Version 7.0 in January 2006 to mark the new release of Version 8.0.
V8 Lite: Regular USD598, Academic USD448.
V8 Standard: Regular USD998, Academic USD848.
V8 Professional: Regular USD1,198, Academic USD998.
V8 Enterprise: Regular USD1,398, Academic USD1,198
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Sales! Only $348 for V7 Standard! Even Lower at $148 for V7 Lite Student License!!
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We are running a special sale of Crystal Studio Version 7.0 Standard and Lite editions from October 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005. During this period, the prices for Crystal Studio Version 7.0 Standard and Lite editions are reduced as follows (in US Dollars):
Standard Edition Single User License either Academic or Non-Academic: 348 (60%-65% off).
Standard Edition Un-limited Installations within a department or a division: 998 (> 70%-80% off).
Lite Edition Single User License either Academic or Non-Academic: 248 (45%-60% off).
Lite Edition Single User Student License*: 148 (67% off).
*Student License can only be downloaded on our web site and paid by Visa or Master cards.
Simplified Chinese Versions are available which install Simplified Chinese version in a Chinese Windows system and install English Version in non-Chinese Windows systems.
This special offer applies to the Standard and Lite editions only. The offer can not be taken together with other special offers.
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Sales! Up to 80% off for Version 7.0 Standard Edition!
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We are running a special sale of Crystal Studio Version 7.0 Standard Edition from August 1, 2005 to September 30, 2005. During this period, the prices for Crystal Studio Version 7.0 Standard Edition are reduced as follows (in US Dollars):
Single User License either Academic or Non-Academic: 498 (40%-50% off).
Un-limited Installations within an Academic Department: 998 (> 70% off).
Un-limited installations within a Non-Academic Division: 998 (> 80% off).
This special offer applies to the Standard edition only. The offer can not be taken together with other special offers.
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Crystal Studio Version 7.0 Released on January 7, 2005.
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We are pleased to announce the new release of crystal Studio Version 7.0 on January 7, 2005.
With Version 7.0, here comes a new look Crystal Studio and more advanced features such as video recording, POV Ray (TM) Tracing, selective build and unlimited steps of Undo and Redos.
The main menu is re-arranged more logically, the Defect menu is added to the Crystal menu as a sub menu, while a new menu, the Model menu is added for model presentations.
An auxiliary toolbar at the bottom of the main window is added for easy access to more commands. All views and all objects have their right-mouse click context sensitive pop-up menus.
Main new features for Version 7.0 include:
Implemented unlimited steps of Undo and Redo for editing processes.
Add different styles for objects including atoms, bonds, polyhedra and planes.
Select colors, styles and materials properties by atom types, by symmetrically equivalent classes of objects or by selected groups.
Look at the real-time rendering result effects while you change the materials properties.
Selectible color, style and materials properties down to individual objects, i.e. atoms, bonds, polyhedra and planes.
Video clip recording, record animations or your work steps into AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) files and play them in Microsoft Power Point documents.
Save POV-Ray(TM)(a shareware) scene files or directly render into image files with real materials textures.
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Selective Build, select certain atoms, symmetry operators and/or bravais translations to build the crystal selectively as a skeleton structure such as molecule cages etc..
Fill Coordination Sphere, use this command for step by step building or for filling the coordination of certain atom types so that coordination polyhedra for the atom type can be build for all the atoms of that atom type.
Different rendering model type can now be applied to selected group of objects. It is now easy to build a crystal with mixed model styles.
Arbitrary selection by drawing arbitrary enclosing curves and invert selections.
Enhanced powder patterns with peak index, structure factor and intensity listed and peak patterns convoluted with profiles.
Build crystal slabs by specifying a surface and a cell range including negative cell ranges.
Add atoms to the top of surface or add a surface layer of atoms.
Preference settings for most parameters to define your default working environment.
Refer to Version 7.0 features for more details via
this link.
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Order Version 6.0 Now and Get a Free Upgrade to Version 7.0 Coming Soon.
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Crystal Studio Version 7.0 is going to be released in a couple of months. Customers who purchase Crystal Studio Version 6.0 from today October 11, 2004 will get a free upgrade to Crystal Studio Version 7.0 corresponding edition. Main new features for Version 7.0 include:
Add different styles for objects including atoms, bonds, polyhedra and planes.
Select colors, styles and materials properties by atom types, by symmetrically equivalent classes of objects or by selected groups.
Look at the real-time rendering result effects while you change the materials properties.
Selectible color, style and materials properties down to individual objects, i.e. atoms, bonds, polyhedra and planes.
Video clip recording, record animations or your work steps into AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) files and play them in Microsoft Power Point documents.
Save POV-Ray(TM)(a shareware) scene files or directly render into image files with real materials textures.
Example
Selective Build, select certain atoms, symmetry operators and/or bravais translations to build the crystal selectively as a skeleton structure such as molecule cages etc..
Fill Coordination Sphere, use this command for step by step building or for filling the coordination of certain atom types so that coordination polyhedra for the atom type can be build for all the atoms of that atom type.
Different rendering model type can now be applied to selected group of objects. It is now easy to build a crystal with mixed model styles.
Arbitrary selection by drawing arbitrary enclosing curves and invert selections.
Enhanced powder patterns with peak index and intensity listed and peak patterns with profiles convoluted.
Build crystal slabs by specifying a surface normal and a cell range including negative cell ranges.
Add atoms to the top of surface or add a surface layer of atoms.
Preference settings for most parameters to define your default working environment.
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Save up to 40% for Single User License and More for Site License.
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We are running a special sale of Crystal Studio Version 6.0 Standard from June 1, 2004 to August 31, 2004. During this period, the prices for Crystal Studio Version 6.0 Standard are reduced as follows (in US Dollars):
Single User License Academic: 498.
Single User License (Non-Academic): 798.
Un-limited Installations within an Academic Department: 998.
Un-limited installations within a Non-Academic Division: 1,798.
This special offer applies to the Standard edition only. The offer can not be taken together with other special offers.
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Crystal Studio Version 6.0 was released
on January 7, 2004
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With the arrival
of the new year, here comes the new Crystal Studio Version
6.0. Crystal Studio Version 6.0 is a perfecting upgrade
over Crystal Studio Version 5.0. It is now a most comprehensive
tool for inorganic or organic crystallography. Major
enhancements include:
- Input or import of source reference data
and thermal displacement parameters into file and
database. Plotting of thermal motion ellipsoids and
implementation of thermal displacement data in calculation
of electron and XRD diffraction patterns.
- Implementation of a macro-molecule view
with a tree view pane and a 3D view pane. The tree
view contains the primary and secondary structure
elements or features for the macro-molecule and the
3D view draws the currently selected structure features
in photo-realistic images.
- Direct import of ICSD, mmCIF and PDB data
files and indirect import through CIF or mmCIF files
of CRYSTMET, CSD data files and so on. Crystal Studio
can now import all common database formats.
- Export of standard CIF files and ASCII
atom coordinates files for input into simulation or
modelling programs.
- View Compositions with up to four different
views from different files into an ideal scene and
save it as high resolution images.
- Two dimensional real and reciprocal lattice
for surface RHEED analysis.
Refer to Version 6.0 features for more details via
this link or download
high resolution images created with Version 6.0 via
this link.
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Molecule Studio Version 1.0 was released
on January 7, 2004
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Molecule Studio
Version 1.0 is based on and developed from Crystal Studio
Version 6.0. It is a comprehensive tool for organic
and inorganic crystallography. Apart from most features
from Crystal Studio Version 6.0, it focus on the Macro-Molecule
View that contains a tree view left pane and a 3D view
right pane for viewing and manupilating the different
structure elements including entities or models, chains
and residues or components, helixes, turns, sheets and
strands etc. for macro molecules.
Suitable for those who works mostly with
macro-molecules and occasionally need to work on inorganic
crystal structures.
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Crystal Studio Version 5.0 is released
on April 15, 2003 .
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Crystal Studio
Version 5.0 is released on April 15, 2003. It is a major
upgrade over previous versions. With Crystal Studio
Version 5.0:
- You can specify bond lengths for atom
pairs and bonds will be automatically built accordingly.
- You can build and plot any types of coordination
polyhedra and equivalent polyhedra throughout the
whole crystal.
- You can build and plot any types of cavity
polyhedra and equivalent polyhedra throughout the
whole crystal.
- You can type in a few starting characters
and search for crystal structures in the database
and create new files with the search results.
- You can create vacancies and interstitial
atoms, interstitial atoms can be added to equivalent
cavities throughout the crystal automatically if requested.
- You can create edge and screw dislocations.
- You can create stacking faults or specify
any stacking sequence to build a new crystal
- You can create twins and plot matrix/twin
combined diffraction pattern, stereographic projections
and reciprocal lattices.
- You can create phase epitaxy with coherent
relationship and plot matrix/second phase combined
diffraction pattern, stereographic projections and/or
reciprocal lattices.
- You can also perform XRD pattern search/match.
Enter several major peaks of your experimental pattern,
the program will search throughout the database to
find matching phase or phases, you can then plot XRD
pattern or 3D crystal models with the search/match
results.
- You can get easy access to about 2000
common crystal structures (for Professional edition)
or about 3000 common crystal structures (for Enterprise
editions) already tested and stored in the database.
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Extra features for Crystal Studio Version
4.0 Professional .
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Cystal Studio
version 4.0 Professional was released in September 2002.
The lateset build has the following extra features:
- An Extended Crystal Structure Database
with more than 1000 common crystal structures.
- Plot powder XRD patterns for phase mixtures.
- Save an animation sequence of 36 images
for building animations for presentations. See an
example(demo.ppt).
- Extended context-sensitive pop-up menu
for the 3D view including menu items for Model Type
(Ball and Stick, Stick, Space Filling and Ball &Stick
plus translucent Space Filling Models) and Projection
Types (Perspective or Orthographic).
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New features added to Crystal Studio version
4.0
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A new feature has been added to Crystal
Studio version 4.0 to help you create animations in
your presentation. See an example(demo.ppt).
Steps to create an animation:
- Open or create a 3D view.
- Adjust the window size and viewing
distance to get a suitable animation for your presentation.
If you are going to put your presentation on a web,
it is better to choose a small window to reduce the
file size.
- The latest Crystal Studio has a
new menu called "Save Animation Sequence" under File
menu. Click the menu and give the name and location
of the sequence file to be stored.
- With the sequence files, you can
create an animation file like .gif, .avi, etc. with
a third party software.
- An example of a gif animation in
a powerpoint presentation is here(demo.ppt).
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Crystal Studio Version 4.0 released on
March 1, 2002.
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Additional Features for Version 4.0:
- Crystal Studio Version 4.0
can now save the 3D image as Windows Bitmap files
with a high resolution of 600dpi and/or 1200 dpi.
They are excellent for use in publications. Crystal
Studio has always been able to print high resolution
3D image through printers.
- With Cystal Studio Version
4.0, users can now transform the unit cell by specifying
the new Z axis of the new cell or by specifying a
transformation matrix. Example:
A normal FCC Al (Fm-3m) cell is transformed to a layered
(ABCABC) cell structure by specifying the new Z axis
as the [111] direction.
- Version 4.0 can now export
crystal structure data as ASCII files from the database.
It can also import crystal structure to the database
from saved ASCII files or similar ASCII files created
eslewhere.
- With Crystal Studio Version
4.0, users can now choose to view the 3D crystal structure
models in perspective or orthographic projection modes.
- Crystal Studio Version 4.0
now allow users to select atoms from a list of all
atoms in the structure. Visual selection of atoms
in the 3D image is always a user-friendly feature
of Crystal Studio.
- Crystals can now be cleaved
along arbitrary planes in Version 4.0.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bugs in importing structure
and cell atomic arrangement data from Comma Separated
Values (.CSV) Files to the Database.
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Crystal Studio Version 3.0 released on
May 1, 2001.
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Additional Features for Version 3.0
- Support all 530 space group specifications
published in various versions of International Tables
for (X-Ray) Crystallography. This is further supplemented
with the capability to input and edit your own space
group specifications. Space group and cell customizations
have never been more flexible or easier.
- Save 3D images as Windows Bitmap
or standard JPEG files inside Crystal Studio itself.
- Create near-neighbour bonding automatically
when you plot a 3D crystal. You can set the near-neighbour
bonding distance. CIF imports now create bonds read
from the files automatically.
- Changeable Material Properties: Users
can now change the Shininess, the Specular reflectivity,
the Emissivity, the Diffuse reflectivity and the Ambient
lighting properties of the objects in the 3D crystal
model to impart a more realistic material feel to
the 3D images.
- Crystal Studio has collected
in its database very comprehensive up-to-date atomic
scattering amplitude data and Debye-Waller factors
for elements and ions from recent literature for the
calculation of the XRD and electron diffraction patterns.
With Version 3.0, users can now add these data from
their own research into the calculation.
Bug Fixes:
- In previous versions, the plane spacing
displayed when click on diffraction spots was kept
the same for a set of parallel planes by dividing
the index with a common denominator. The plane spacing
is now calculated based on the real index of the particular
spot.
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Crystal Studio Version 2.0 released on
July 1, 2000.
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Additional Features for Version 2.0
- Space Group Database Form: allows
creation, editing/modification and viewing of space
group specifications.
- Pop-up Menus: Right mouse button
click pop-up menus for 3D views and objects make editing
in 3D view quick and easy.
- CIF File Import: Import CIF (Crystal
Information File) files and plot the 3D crystal structure,
stereographic projections, XRD and electron diffraction
patterns.
- Structure Data Import: Import crystal
structure data from comma separated value (CSV) files
into the database.
- Cell Data Import: Import unit cell
atom arrangement data from comma separated value (CSV)
files into the database.
Version 2.0 has been professionally revised
using the latest software technology. It is more robust,
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Crystal Studio Version 1.1 released on
July 1, 1999.
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Updates for Version 1.1 on July 1, 1999
- Powder XRD Pattern View has been
updated.
- Build crystal structure without specifying
the space group.
- More Tips of the Day added.
Updates for Version 1.1 added on August
3, 1999
- Add Zoom-In and Zoom-Out commands
in the View menu for zooming of all views.
Updates for Version 1.1 added on October
5, 1999
- Add visual geometric measurement
for distances, angles and torsion angles in the 3D
crystal structure view by selecting appropriate number
of atoms and clicking the Get Geometric Measurement
toolbar button. The measured distance and angles will
be displayed between the atoms on the view. Simply
clicking the Get Geometric Measurement toolbar button
without selecting atoms will still display a modaless
dialog box for measuring Miller plane spacings and
angles between Miller planes.
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Bug
Report:
A bug is found in XRD Pattern View. Low intensity
peaks with large indexes for which the 2Theta is larger than
180 degrees (seldom shown on real XRD patterns) are sometimes
shown with 2Theta below 180 degrees owing to the multiple
value nature of trigonal functions.
Solution: To avoid
this situation, users can adopt one of the following 3 approaches:
- Increase the cut-off intensity ("Cut-Off
Count") to remove the low intensity large index peaks.
- Decrease the maximum index ("Max. Index")
to remove large index low intensity peaks.
- Decrease the wave length by selecting e.g.
Mo Ka=0.711 Angstrom. This will reduce the 2Theta for large
index peaks.
This bug is fixed in the latest build of Version
4.0.
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