FAQ

General

1. What is an "engine?"

   In older versions (before 0.8), Avogadro had "rendering engines" or just "engines" which dictated the objects which appeared on the screen. In more recent versions, these are called "display types" or "displays."

2. Why does insert smiles give the wrong stereoisomer?

   This is a bug in OpenBabel and will be fixed in future versions.

3. Does avogadro work on platfrom X?

   Avogadro can be downloaded for windows, MacOS & linux and should work on most other unix systems too.

Scripting

1. Does avogadro supprt scripting?

   Yes, avogadro 1.0 has support for python.

2. Can I use libavogadro from a python standalone script?

   Yes, but this currently only works on linux. On windows, the python interpretor used is not the same as the python installed (if any). Compiling avogadro on windows and running the python interpretor from the avogadro directory should make this work too. If requested, we can see wether we can ship python.exe in future versions for this purpose.