Diamond Version 5 - HowTo

While working with Diamond, you may come to a point at which you would like to perform some more or less complex operation and don't actually know how to do it in detail. In these cases, it is worth while visiting this page and see if there are instructions for your task.

Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF)

• Colorizing organic linkers using Copy Style and Paste Style
• Using design schemes for organic linkers and inorganic building units

Centroids

• Creating polygons, e.g. in phenyl rings
• Measuring distances between centroids
• Creating big bulbs in MOF frameworks

Export and Printing

• Simple export of structure pictures using Copy/Paste
• Exporting high-quality pictures
• Printing pictures
• Creating Postscript files

POV-Ray

• Running POV-Ray
• Disabling the POV-Ray editor
• Defining a stereoscopic projection in a POV-Ray scene