SYNOPSIS

xcrysden [special-options]
xcrysden [special-options] format-options file|directory

DESCRIPTION

XCrySDen is a crystalline and molecular structure visualisation program, which aims at display of isosurfaces and contours, which can be superimposed on crystalline structures and interactively rotated and manipulated.

SPECIAL OPTIONS

-h

--help

Display help message.

-v

--version

Display program version information.

-u

id

--use id

Load XCrySDen embedded into container window with window-ID=id.

-r dim

--reducedim dim

Reduce periodic dimension of XSF file to dim. Must be specified before --xsf option, e.g., xcrysden -r 2 --xsf file.

-c file

--custom file

Load custom-definitions from a specified file (the syntax is that of ~/.xcrysden/custom-definitions).

-a file

--attributes file

Load attributes from file. The format of the attributes file is the following:

        ELEMENTCOLOR
        atomic-number1   red1 blue1 green1
        atomic-number2   red2 blue2 green2
        ...
        ELEMENTRADIUS
        atomic-number1   radius1
        atomic-number2   radius2
        ...

-l file

--lights file

Load lights parameters from XCrySDen's lights formatted file.

FORMAT OPTIONS

--xsf file

Load structure from XCrySDen's-Structure-File (XSF) formatted file.

--animxsf file

--axsf file

Load structres from Animated-XCrySDen's-Structure-File (AXSF) formatted file.

--bxsf file Load bands from BXSF (Band-XSF) file and visualize Fermi Surface.         

--xmol file

--xyz file

Load structure from XYZ formatted file.

--pdb file

Load structure from PDB formatted file.

--gzmat file

Load structure from Gaussian Z-matrix (requires Open-Babel program).

--gaussian_out file

--gxx_out file

--g98_out file

Load structure from Gaussian output file. Only single point calculation and optimization run is supported so far. For the optimization run it is possible to render all the structures that were produced during the run.

--cube file

--gXX_cube file

--g98_cube file

Load structure from Gaussian cube file. The cube file should be produced with the Cube=Cards option. Only scalar cube files are supported, that is, Cube=(Cards,Density) or Cube=(Cards,Orbitals) or Cube=(Cards,Potential). Refer to GAUSSIAN manual for the meaning of this keywords.

                

--crystal_inp file

Load structure from CRYSTAL (http://http://www.crystal.unito.it/) input file.

--crystal_f9 file

Load structure from CRYSTAL (http://http://www.crystal.unito.it/) fortran unit 9.

--wien_struct filehead|file|directoryFr

Load structure from WIEN2k (http://www.wien2k.at/

) struct-file, where:

    filehead = name of struct file without .struct extension,
    file = filename,
    directory = name of case directory.      

--wien_kpath directory|struct-file

Read struct file and render first Brillouin zone with special k-points. K-path can be selected interactively by mouse-clicking the special k-points. User must specify EMIN and EMAX energies and total number of k-points along the path. This number is merely an estimation of total number of k-points, since XCrySDen tries to get very uniform sampling of k-points along the path (don't specify WIEN2k maximum allowed number of k-points, since XCrySDen maight generate few points more).

--wien_renderdensity directory

Read struct, output, and rho files and renders crystalline structure and precomputed charge density.

--wien_density direcory

Either 2D or 3D region for charge density calculation is interactively chosen by mouse-clicking. XCrySDen generates in5 file(s), calculates and renders charge density either as isolines/colorplanes (2D) or isosurfaces (3D).

--wien_fermisurface directory

Pop-up a task window for Fermi surface creation. After several steps the Fermi surface is (hopefully) drawn as 3D isosurface.

--fhi_inpini file

Load structure from FHI98MD inp.ini formated file.

--fhi_coord file

Load structure from FHI98MD coord.out formated file.

--pwi

--pw_inp

file

Load structure from pw.x input file. pw.x is a pseudopotential planewave program of the Quantum-ESPRESSO distribution (http://www.quantum-espresso.org/).

--pwo

--pw_out

file

Load structure from pw.x output file. pw.x is a pseudopotential planewave program of the Quantum-ESPRESSO distribution (http://www.quantum-espresso.org/).

-s script

--script script

Load script from file containing Tcl script.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1996--2012 Anton Kokalj

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.