Match! Download Area
On this page you will find the current Match! software version 3.6.1.115 as well as
free-of-charge reference patterns calculated from the COD database,
and last-but-not-least installer packages of the well-known Rietveld program FullProf
(by J. Rodriguez-Carvajal) for all supported platforms.
Registration
If you are interested in the free-of-charge Match! 3 demo version,
we would appreciate very much if you register for our mailing list.
Although this is not mandatory for downloading the demo version from below, we would like to be able to
inform you by e-mail when updated versions have become available.
As an alternative, you can follow us on Twitter where we also post information about updates and other news.
The software packages provided below can either be used to install the Match! demonstration version, as installers
for the electronic delivery option, or to update
for your existing Match! installation to the most recent version. The download packages contain the latest version of
the COD-Inorganics reference database as well as the full documentation
(manual and online help).
Without adding a license file the software installed from the download packages below serves as a demo version:
The functionality is equivalent to the full version, the
only difference being the time limitation: After you have installed the
software for the first time it will work for 2 months. Once this evaluation period has passed you should
purchase a license if you would like to continue using the software.
If you would like to update your current version of Match! 3 on your computer, you should normally do not uninstall the previous version before installing the new version (but see below)! Instead, simply
install the new version on top of the existing version.
This is important in order to make sure that your license file is retained.
If you are updating from a Match! version 3.4.x (or earlier) and you are encountering
any difficulties when installing or running the new version, please follow these instructions:
First of all, please copy your license file "yourlicense.lic" from your current/old Match! program directory
(e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Match3") to a safe place (e.g. a temporary directory). Afterwards, uninstall Match!,
then make sure to manually remove all Match! program directories that might still exist.
You are now ready to download and run the corresponding new version installer from the links below.
Once you have installed the new version, please move your license file "yourlicense.lic" from the temporary directory
back into the new Match! program directory.
Please contact us if these hints did not help to run Match! on your computer!
Installation packages
are available for Windows (64-bit, 32-bit and XP/Vista), Mac OS X and Linux (Intel 32-bit and 64-bit). Before downloading the appropriate installation package using the links
in the table below, please read the corresponding file "Readme.txt" carefully, in order to
learn about system requirements as well as how to install the software on the corresponding platform
(especially in case of the Linux and Windows packages). Note that in any case you need administrator privileges to install the software!
Current version is 3.6.1.115 (released on March 1, 2018).
You can also download previous versions.
Thanks to the efforts of Prof. Santiago Rodríguez Almenar,
an excellent tutorial document in Spanish language is available.
In addition to any ICDD PDF database product, Match! can also use
free-of-charge reference patterns
calculated from crystal structure data that are available free-of-charge on the
internet. These data come from the COD ("Crystallography Open Database").
There are three different COD reference database packages available:
The complete COD reference pattern database containing all appropriate entries from the COD,
another package containing only COD reference patterns for inorganic compounds (without C-H-bonds),
and finally a tiny small reference database that contains only reference patterns for Cement phases.
The COD Inorganics reference pattern database (which can be downloaded below) can be used with Match! version 1.7 or higher. Please note,
however, that the full COD reference database (containing more than 387,000 entries) can only be used with Match! version 3
64-bit versions, because the central database file has become so large (> 2 GB) that it can no longer be accessed
with earlier as well as 32-bit versions. The
most recent full COD version that is still compatible with Match! version 1 has been released on January 4, 2016, and
can be downloaded from here.
Installation instructions: First of all, download the compressed reference database file(s), by clicking on the
corresponding file name (link) in the table below. When the download has finished, please unzip the contents of the zip-file(s) to the directory
where you would like to save/create the new reference database.
Once you have extracted the contents of the zip-file(s) please run Match!, open the Reference Database Library (e.g. from the "Tools" menu),
press the "Add" button, and select the file "MatchRefDBInfo.mtn" in the directory where you have unzipped the files.
The new reference database can now be selected for being used.
| Reference patterns from... |
File name |
Entries |
Size |
Date |
Revision |
Crystallography Open Database (COD)
(single file) |
COD_20180102.zip |
387,020 |
2.23 GB |
January 2, 2018 |
204654 |
| COD inorganic compounds only |
COD_Inorganics_20180102.zip |
69,035 |
188 MB |
January 2, 2018 |
204654 |
| Cement compounds only |
Cements_20140730.zip |
73 |
0.2 MB |
July 30, 2014 |
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Match! uses the well-known Rietveld program
FullProf
(J. Rodriguez-Carvajal, Physica B 192, 55 (1993)) to run Rietveld refinement calculations. You can download FullProf installers
for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Linux 64-bit)
either from the original FullProf download page
or from below.
FullProf installation instructions (taken from FullProf web page, with minor modifications):
Windows
Download the Windows installer package from the table above into some temporary directory, then double-click on
it to run the installer. Follow the instructions on the screen, paying attention not to use directory
names with blank or non ASCII characters in their name.
Mac OS X
FullProf4Mac.app is the full implementation of the FULLPROF suite (64 bits). It is signed with the “Institut Laue-Langevin” certificate.
OpenMotif is embedded and there is no need for defining any environment variable.
Just double-click the icon of the application to launch it.
Requirements:
- macOS Mountain Lion (10.8) or higher
- the free X11 tool XQuartz.app (at http://xquartz.macosforge.org) version 2.7.9 or higher must be present on your computer.
Installation
Download the file "FullProf4Mac-vxxx.dmg" to the Desktop. Click on it and drag the FullProf4Mac icon to the icon "Applications". That's all !
Linux
Download the installer file from the table above. Afterwards, please perform the following steps:
General Mode (for all the users of the system)
- Activate the super-user mode
- Create a directory in which you want to hold the programs of the FullProf_Suite.
For instance: /usr/local/bin/FullProf_Suite in some Linux systems
- Copy the file FullProf_Suite_XXXXNNNN_Lin.tgz (XXX=Month NNNN=year) in the
directory just created in step 2.
- Decompress the file .tgz with the following command:
tar -xzvf FullProf_Suite_XXXXNNNN_Lin.tgz
- Tell the users to activate the environment variable FULLPROF in their configuration file (see below)
Local Mode (Installation for a single user)
- Create a directory in which you want to hold the programs of the FullProf_Suite,
e.g. $HOME/FullProf_Suite
- For doing that you must execute the following commands:
cd $HOME
mkdir FullProf_Suite
cd FullProf_Suite
- Copy the file FullProf_Suite_XXXXNNNN_Lin.tgz (XXXX=Month NNNN=year) in the
directory just created in step 2
- Decompress the file .tgz with the following command:
tar -xzvf FullProf_Suite_XXXXNNNN_Lin.tgz
- Modify the configuration file to activate the environment variable FULLPROF (see below)
Activation of the environment variable of the FullProf_Suite
- Depending of the SHELL of the user the commands are different. The aim is to create the
environment variable FULLPROF.
To know what is the shell one is using you should execute the command:
echo $SHELL
Generally it is one of the following: Bourne (sh, bash), Korn(ksh), C(csh)
- From now we suppose we are using the Bourne of bash type. If you have another one you must
consult how to do the equivalent commands we explain below.
- Edit the setting file of the user. In our case it should be in the root directory of
the user and the name is .bashrc or .bash_profile
- Add the environment variable FULLPROF, that has as value the absolute path of the directory
in which we have installed the programs of the FullProf Suite.
For instance:
FULLPROF=/opt/FullProf_Suite
FULLPROF=/usr/local/bin/FullProf_Suite<
- Add the above directory to the PATH variable
PATH=$FULLPROF:$PATH
- Export the defined variable
export FULLPROF
- The changes will be effective on opening a new terminal window. To verify that everything is OK,
just type in your terminal the command:
echo $FULLPROF
The system will show the directory in which you have installed the programs.
After performing all the above steps all the programs of the FullProf Suite are available from whatever
working directory. If you need to update the FullProf Suite you just have to do the steps 3 and 4 of the
General or Local mode described above. Only in the case you decide to use another directory you have to
redefine the environment variable. You can use the programs in console mode or use the toolbar (command
tfp) to access the different programs.
Depending of your installation you may need to install the libraries of OpenMotif version 2.3.
Do that only in case one of the GUIs doesn't work and you see a message of the form: "libXm.so.3" not available
or something similar.
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