What's New in CrystalMaker 4.0?
New Selection & Editing Tools

CrystalMaker's selection tools have further strengthened with release 4.0. There is a new "Selection" menu, with a number of tools to make selecting and manipulating molecular units or crystal clusters easier - plus the much-requested ability to edit individual atom colours and/or radii.

Some of the selection tools are also available via a popup (contextual) menu in the graphics window (hold down the control key on your keyboard and click in the graphics window).

The new selection tools include:-

• Hide Other Molecules command: hides all molecular units which do not contain selected atoms. This makes it much easier to isolate individual molecules in a molecular crystal.
• Select Entire Molecule command: selects all other atoms within the same molecule. This command is very useful when moving one group of atoms relative to another (e.g., when attempting to visualize the appearance of a molecule on a crystal surface).
• Change Atom Colour: the colour of any selected atom(s) can now be independently set - regardless of crystallographic site or element type. This is particularly useful for highlighting aspects of a complex crystal structure: you might wish to display most of the structure in blue, with (say) a structural channel drawn in red.
• Change Atom Type command (molecules only): a very quick and easy way to edit a molecule. With this command you can change an atom's element, its radius and colour. For example, you can build a new molecule from scratch by starting off with a single atom (defined in the Edit > Molecule dialog), then duplicating it and changing its type to whatever new atom types you desire.
• Edit Coordinates command: for molecules you can edit an atom's orthogonal coordinates, without having to go to the Edit > Molecule dialog. For groups of atoms, or for crystals, you can define an offset in Angstrom units, through which the selected atoms will be translated.
• Reset Atom Colours command: all atom colours are reset to the colours defined by their element types.

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