Re: CCL:Graphics Programs for Visualizing ADF MOs

Title: Re: CCL:Graphics Programs for Visualizing ADF MOs
    I am relatively new to the ADF DFT package and I was wondering if someone could point me to a good molecular graphics viewer for ADF jobs.  In particular I am interested in viewing molecular structures, Molecular Orbitals and animating vibrational frequencies with it. 


Hello Stephen,

have a look at Jmol (http://jmol.sourceforge.net/). It is a Java-based molecular viewer, hence platform-independent. It is capable of reading ADF's output files (and a number of other formats) and can animate sequences of structures as well as vibrations; not molecular orbitals or densities, however.
The quality of the graphics is very decent, and the program is under active development.


Regards,

Hans
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