KPLOT Download Area

About KPLOT

The program KPLOT was written by Rudolf Hundt (1941 - 2020) at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany and is designed to draw and analyze crystal structures. Starting from the first version in 1979 the software has been continuously improved and updated. It provides:

• Various strategies for step-wise building up crystal structure models
• Facility to work with two crystal structures at the same time
• Tools for the comparison of two crystal structures
• Plotting of ball-and-stick models, thermal ellipsoids and coordination polyhedra
• Symmetry analysis and transformation, space group determination
• Calculation of interatomic distances, angles and torsion angles
• Interfaces to SHELX, ORTEP, SCHAKAL, MISSYM, LAZY PULVERIX

Documentation

You can download the manual as well as a brief version history. A tutorial as well as a comprehensive reference manual (both as PDF-files) are contained in the download archives below.

License and Download

KPLOT is available free-of-charge and can be downloaded from one of the links at the bottom of this page, provided that you agree to the following GNU GPL v3 licensing conditions:

KPLOT - A Program for Plotting and Analyzing Crystal Structures Copyright (C) 1979-2019 Rudolf Hundt KPLOT is free software: You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.

KPLOT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Contact: Klaus Pleuger, Co-Programmer, E-Mail: k.pleuger@t-online.de

Source files: The source files for KPLOT can be downloaded from here.

Compiled packages are available for download below. No further installation is necessary: Simply extract the archive in an appropriate directory, then run the executable. Documentation (in English) is included in the common Acrobat Reader format (kpdoce.pdf).

Operating System	File name	Size	Vers.	Date
Windows	kpwin.zip	2.9 MBytes	9.6.15	June 23, 2012
Linux (for QT library version 2.x (2.2.1 or higher))	kplot.tar.gz	1.6 MBytes	9.6.15	June 23, 2012