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User Documentation

  • Introduction
  • What’s New in Avogadro 2
  • Getting Started
  • Building Molecules
  • Tools
  • Menus
  • Display Types
  • Panes
  • Optimizing Geometry
  • Tutorials
    • Building Organic Molecules with Functional Groups
    • Building Metal Complexes
    • Naming a Molecule
    • Setting a Bond Length, Angle or Dihedral
    • Optimizing While You Edit
    • Optimizing with Constraints
    • Finding Low-Energy Conformers
    • Hiding and Showing Hydrogens
    • Showing Hydrogen Bonds and Other Interactions
    • Calculating, Viewing and Exporting Partial Charges
    • Viewing Molecular Orbitals
    • Viewing Electrostatic Potential Maps
    • Viewing Vibrations
    • Distorting a Structure Along a Vibrational Mode
    • Using QTAIM (Atoms in Molecules) Analysis
  • Plugins and Python
  • Settings
  • Guide
  • Tutorials

Tutorials#

Step-by-step tutorials covering common workflows in Avogadro, from drawing organic molecules and metal complexes, to setting exact geometry values, optimizing with frozen atoms or fixed bond lengths, and finding conformers, to showing hydrogen bonds and partial charges and visualizing molecular orbitals, electrostatic potentials, and vibrational modes.

Tutorials

  • Building Organic Molecules with Functional Groups
  • Building Metal Complexes
  • Naming a Molecule
  • Setting a Bond Length, Angle or Dihedral
  • Optimizing While You Edit
  • Optimizing with Constraints
  • Finding Low-Energy Conformers
  • Hiding and Showing Hydrogens
  • Showing Hydrogen Bonds and Other Interactions
  • Calculating, Viewing and Exporting Partial Charges
  • Viewing Molecular Orbitals
  • Viewing Electrostatic Potential Maps
  • Viewing Vibrations
  • Distorting a Structure Along a Vibrational Mode
  • Using QTAIM (Atoms in Molecules) Analysis

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