What's New?
Miscellaneous Improvements

CrystalMaker 3 has been continually improved since its release, and versions 3.1, and later, feature many additional refinements. These include:-

• Improved numeric precision for bond distance and angle calculations.
• Greatly-improved Edit Crystal dialog: lattice parameter fields allow one extra decimal place; xyz fields now allow up to 7 decimal places; trailing zeroes are eliminated from the atomic coordinates list (making it easier to check data values) and list columns are now correctly aligned with the editing fields.
• New Symmetry Options dialog with a tabbed interface.
• QuickDraw (vector) graphics export for "photo-colour" images with atom spheres (N.B., some drawing programs such as Canvas 5 do not correctly interpret the resolution setting of PICT files and downgrade QuickDraw/PICT vector graphics to 72dpi; other programs such as Adobe Photoshop do not have this problem).
• New "flat rendering" mode for atoms, bonds, polyhedra. Allows use of old CrystalMaker-2 "simple colour" style graphics with plain atom discs framed in white or black.
• New "Hide Other Molecules" menu command, makes it easier to isolate a single molecule from the rest of a crystal structure (versions 3.1.3, and later)
• Help buttons added to Info Window and various dialogs.
• Info Window has new MacOS8-style greyscale appearance.
• Improved procedure for launching help files and CrystalDiffract.
• Polyhedra can now be generated for structures which have only one atom type.
• File menu filename listing is validated on startup.
• Increased default memory size from 6000K to 8000K.
• Improved export of PDB files so that other programs understand atom names better.
• Improved import of SHELX datafiles: CrystalMaker now interprets the "LATT" card and adds the appropriate symmetry generators.
• Subtle improvements to toolbars (newly designed toolbar buttons and shading).

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