MAX3D

A Program for the Visualization of Reciprocal Space

Authors:

Jim Britten (Crystallographer)

Weiguang Guan (Research Scientist, Programmer)

MAX3D is a software package designed to read a series of 2D diffraction images and provide a visualization of a solid volume of reciprocal space.

Tools are included to:

adjust the opacity as a function of intensity or log intensity; to zoom and rotate; to examine slices, 2Theta shells, or 3D 2Theta poles; identify 2Theta and fractional hkl points; 3D clipping of volumes; reload subsections of reciprocal space at higher resolution.

A poster prepared by Vicky Jarvis showing some of the materials applications of MAX3D is available.

Academic users may obtain a free license for MAX3D by contacting Jim Britten.

A MAX3D User Manual is available on-line.

Development support is provided by McMaster University and Sharcnet. We would like to acknowledge Mark Hollingsworth of Kansas State University and Joe Ferrara of Rigaku Americas Corporation for development support.


Download

 

Current stable version is 5.0

MAX3D for Windows 64bit

 

Installation

Unzip the downloaded zip file. Run MAX3D.msi and follow the installation wizard. The default location (if you don't change it) is "C:\Program Files\McMaster University\MAX3D".

If you get an error message saying "this program failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect" or a VCOMP120.DLL error,

install the VC++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013: http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=40784 .

 

When you first execute MAX3D, you will be asked to fill in the activation form. Make sure that your computer has network access, enter your activation key, and submit. 

 

Reference for MAX3D: IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Computing Newsletter No. 8, November 2007, 96-108.