v9.2 [Jun 24, 2015]
Projected Bond Distances. The Bond Distance tool now prints the projected distance (in the plane of the screen) in the Log. This complements the displayed distance (in three-dimensions of the plot) which is also printed in the Log. This feature should be useful to electron microscopists, who have to work with structure projections in two dimensions.
Load Site Label "Properties". The CrystalMaker Text format (CMTX) now allows you to load floating-point "properties" for each crystal site or atom. Instead of entering a site label as a character string (e.g., "T1"), you can enter a floating-point number (e.g., "0.1234"). This then allows you to display this value as an atom label.
Note: You should use a floating-point number, not an integer - otherwise the file might be interpreted as a STRUPLO-format file and your "properties" will be ignored.
Miscellaneous Changes. This version includes a minor enhancement to the Relax Molecule command and a fix for reading certain CIF files.
The Relax Molecule and Add Hydrogens commands are now enabled for the Demonstration version.
Improved the Relax Molecule command, with more sophisticated four-body potentials.
An extremely-rare issue with reading CIF files which contain nested single quotes on the last line of the file, has been resolved.
v9.1 [Oct 6, 2014]
Measure Bonds:
- A new Measure > Bonds command provides a listing of all the visible bonds in the current structure, including atom information, bond lengths and the total number of bonds. The total number of bonds is also listed (in the Log) when choosing the Measure > Chemical Formula command.
- Improved Relax Molecule. This version includes improvements to the potentials used for molecular relaxation, designed to cope with difficult geometries and oxygen double bonds. A memory leak associated with long-running relaxations, has also been resolved.
Miscellaneous Changes:
- This version includes performance improvements and miscellaneous bug fixes.
- The Atom Picker palette can now be (re-)displayed by clicking on the Add Atom tool at any time.
- The Set Range command is now considerably faster.
- Rhombohedral spacegroups are now handled correctly in the Crystal Editor.
- Vertical and horizontal bonds can now be selected using the Arrow tool.
- Fixed an issue relating to the use of percentage values in the Export Graphics dialog.
- Fixed a rare problem that could occur when attempting to transform the unit cell by projecting onto a lattice plane.
- The Make Polyhedron command now correctly adds any new sites to the zeroth unit cell.
v9.0 [Apr 20, 2014]
CrystalMaker 9.0.2 for Windows
3 June 2014
Interface Improvements. This version includes an improved Atom Picker palette with colour swatches, plus smoother and clearer "subtitle" display in the Graphics pane.
Miscellaneous Changes. This version includes a Leap Motion (de-)activation display, plus miscellaneous bug fixes.
Leap Motion activation display. If the Leap Motion software has been installed, a welcome message is displayed on startup.
Scaling of graphical elements has been fixed for copy or export graphics.
The File > Export > Graphics command again works correctly.
Fixed an issue relating to the rhombohedral setting for trigonal spacegroups.
v2.7 [Dec 5, 2012]
A problem which caused an invalid licence code error when running the Full Installer on existing installations has been fixed.
Information regarding the Uninstaller is now correctly written to the Registry when a reboot is required following installation or updating.
v2.5 [Nov 13, 2011]
A new edition of the CrystalMaker Tutorial is included with this release. This has an all-new, single-column layout, designed to be easier to read on a computer screen. Extensive changes have been made throughout the text, with clearer labelling of figures, and including margin notes and standout boxes.
- The pop-up menu in the Transform > Lattice Plane > Edit dialog now returns correct Miller indices.
- Right-clicking in the Help Viewer window now displays a contextual menu.
- The appearance of cylindrical bonds at small sizes in full rendering mode has been improved.
- Fixed a problem which prevented proper navigation between licence code elements in the Personalisation dialog once all the licence code boxes had been filled.
- Increased the tolerance for duplicate atoms, to reduce the likelihood of spurious sites being displayed for low-resolution structure refinements.
