Startup Window
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This window appears when ATOMS is first started, or when a data set (Graphics Window) is closed.

The structure image at the bottom of this window is from a file called default.png. You may save a new version of this file (Raster option, File menu) - the image should be about 300 pixels wide by 200 pixels high.

It has its own menu bar Startup Menu Bar, and the following buttons for getting a data file into ATOMS.

New - Step-by-step input of a new ATOMS data set.

Open - Open an old ATOMS data file.

Import File - Shows a pop-up menu with the file types currently supported. This includes:

---- CCDC FDAT files from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
---- SHELX.INS files from the program system of Prof. G. Sheldrick.
---- CIF - Crystallographic Information Files.
---- DBWS/LHPM Rietveld input files.
---- ICSD Inorganic Crystal Structure Database files.
---- ORTEP Original or ORTEP II atom information.
---- XTLVIEW Drawing program.
---- VIBRAT (.MOT) Graphic output files from VIBRATZ.
---- PDB Protein Data Bank files.
---- RIETAN Rietveld program files.
---- GSAS Data files (.EXP) files from the Los Alamos Lab system - may include magnetic vectors.
---- AM MINERAL. Data files from the American Mineralogist structure data base.
---- FULLPROF. All-purpose refinement program - may include magnetic vectors.
---- Free-form (.inp). This allows input of atomic coordinates and other information from almost any source.
---- Ravel ATOMS. This program is not the same as ATOMS by Shape Software, but is for EXAFS Analysis.
---- WIEN2K. The program package WIEN2k performs electronic structure calculations of solids using density functional theory (DFT).
---- IZA (zeolites). Files from the International Zeolite Association database.
---- GAUSSIAN. Files from the molecular-orbital program (usually molecules)

Exit/Quit - Quit the ATOMS program.