MacMolPlt freeware

http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/~brett/MacMolPlt/

• What is it?
• Sample Output
• New features
• Downloading MacMolPlt
• Online manual (included with the executable)

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MacMolPlt is:

• A modern graphics program for plotting 3-D molecular structures and normal modes (vibrations). Modern means:
  
  • Mouse driven interface for real-time rotation and translation.
  • copy and paste functionality for interfacing to other programs such as word processors or other graphics programs (like ChemDraw).
  • simple printing to color or black and white printers (publication quality).
  • multiple files open at once.
  
  
• It reads a variety of file formats including any GAMESS input, log or IRC file directly to create animations of IRC's, DRC's, and optimizations. You may also import a $VEC group from any file (such as a GAMESS .DAT file). In addition xMol XYZ files, MolDen format files and Chemical Markup Language (CML) files are supported. Also some PDB file support and MDL MolFile support is included.
• Molecular point group symmetry is supported.
• You may also paste GAMESS and Gaussian-92 style cartesian coordinates directly into the program.
• Animation of Normal Modes.
• Animation of IRC's, and DRC's including orbitals.
• Simple Energy Plots (including geometrical parameters).
• Simple frequency line graph of frequency versus infrared or Raman intensity.
• Append multiple GAMESS files together to create a single animation.
• Build or modify molecules using the graphical molecule builder.
  
  • Quickly build realistic 3D structures.
  • rotate selected atoms about bonds, change bond or dihedral angles.
  • translate and rotate selected subgroups.
  
  
• Build molecules from scratch using cartesian or internal coordinates
• 2D orbital, total electron density contour map display
• 3D molecular orbital, total electron density display
• density difference maps
• Molecular Electrostatic Potential Maps
• Simple GAMESS input (.inp) builder
• 3D color display with lighting and shading using OpenGL under MacOS X.

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Below are a few samples created directly with MacMolPlt:
Simple Molecule Display with labels and displaying the bond angle:


Water with the C_2v operators.





Quinone with a total electron density surface colorized with the molecular electrostatic potential value.

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Distributions

MacOS X:

MacMolPlt 7.2.1 for MacOS X 10.3 and later on PowerPC or Intel processors (Universal binary) ( 5.8M )

MacMolPlt 7.2.1 for MacOS X 10.4 and later on PowerPC or Intel processors (Universal binary) supporting quad-buffered OpenGL ( 6.9M )

The only functional difference between these two binaries is that the latter supports hardware stereo display, but does not run on OS X 10.3.

Linux:

Here is a source distribution primarily targeted at Linux: wxmacmolplt 7.2.1 ( 1.5M)

For further information on building and prebuilt binaries please refer to our Linux support page.

Windows:

• Most users should use this Windows installer (.msi) package MacMolPlt 7.2.1 for Windows ( 4.7M)
  You should be able to download it and double click it to install MacMolPlt.
• If you can not run an installer on your system here is a plain zip archive. If the wxMacMolPlt.exe file fails to launch with a message saying the configuration is invalid you need to install the VS8 runtime libraries. Just run the file linked here.
• The Windows build should support quad-buffered OpenGL.

These files contain the current version of MacMolPlt and the manual (in html format).

Check here for a list of known issues.

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If you need a version of MacMolPlt for MacOS 9 or MacOS X 10.2 and earlier you can grab the original MacMolPlt.

Remember:

MacMolPlt is free, but if you use it I request that you send me a note (E-Mail or Snail mail) telling me what you like and what you don't like (What's not to like ;-).

If you use MacMolPlt for published work an appropriate reference is:

Bode, B. M. and Gordon, M. S. J. Mol. Graphics Mod., 16, 1998, 133-138.