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Building Materials#

Avogadro provides tools for building and manipulating crystalline materials, including symmetry perception, unit cell manipulation, and supercell generation. These features are useful for solid-state chemistry, materials science, and periodic calculations.

Building Materials

  • Perceiving Crystal Symmetry
    • Open a Crystal File
    • See Also
  • Reducing Crystals to a Primitive Unit Cell
  • Scaling Crystal Cell Volume
  • Building a Supercell
    • Creating a Surface
    • See Also
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