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This page contains all the tutorials which should help you get using Avogadro efficiently.
 
This page contains all the tutorials which should help you get using Avogadro efficiently.
  
Video tutorials and screencasts can be found on YouTube.
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<h3 style="background:#FFC435;margin:-2px;padding:4px;"> ''Step-By-Step Walkthroughs'' </h3>
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Here is an incomplete list of tutorials which need to be written:
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# [[Tutorials:Getting started]]
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: Opening files, navigation, render settings
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# [[Tutorials:Drawing molecules]]
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: Drawing, adding/removing hydrogens, editing atom coordinates, geometry optimization
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# [[Tutorials:Making selections]]
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: Delete, copy/paste, operating on selections
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# [[Tutorials:Display Types]]
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: Selecting, enabling, configuring your display
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# [[Tutorials:Orbitals]]
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: Viewing output from quantum chemistry programs
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# [[Tutorials:Altering Bonds]]
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: Changing bond length, angles, and dihedrals
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# [[Tutorials:Molecular Mechanics]]
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: AutoOptimize, optimize geometry, and friends
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# [[Tutorials:Force fields]]
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: Which force field to use, commonly made mistakes, tips, etc.
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# [[Tutorials:Advanced molecular mechanics]]
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: Using constraints
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# [[Tutorials:Console]]
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: Manipulating molecules in Avogadro, using the Python console
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<h3 style="background:#FFC435;margin:-2px;padding:4px;"> ''Video Tutorials'' </h3>
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Flash tutorials:
 
 
# [http://home.scarlet.be/timvdm/navigate.htm Opening files and navigation (3.5MB)]
 
# [http://home.scarlet.be/timvdm/navigate.htm Opening files and navigation (3.5MB)]
 
# [http://home.scarlet.be/timvdm/drawing.htm Drawing (3.3MB)]
 
# [http://home.scarlet.be/timvdm/drawing.htm Drawing (3.3MB)]
 
# [http://home.scarlet.be/timvdm/display.htm Working with display types (26MB)]
 
# [http://home.scarlet.be/timvdm/display.htm Working with display types (26MB)]
  
Here is an incomplete list of tutorials which need to be written:
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# [[Tutorials:Getting started]] (opening files, navigation, settings (quality))
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# [[Tutorials:Drawing molecules]] (draw tool, hydrogens extension, cartesian editor, quick optimization (using defaults), ...)
 
# [[Tutorials:Force fields]] Which force field to use, commonly made mistakes, tips, ...
 
# [[Tutorials:Making selections]] (needed for engine tutorial, more details about what you can do with a selection (delete, copy/paste, explain that certain tools/extension operate on selections, ...)
 
# [[Tutorials:Engines]] (selecting, enabling, configuring)
 
# [[Tutorials:Console]] (manipulating molecules in Avogadro, using the Python console)
 
# [[Tutorials:Orbitals]] (orbital engine/extension)
 
# [[Tutorials:Using the bond centric tool]]
 
# [[Tutorials:Molecular mechanics]] (force field extension, AutoOpt tool)
 
# [[Tutorials:Advanced molecular mechanics]] (using constraints to make cyclohexane go from chair to boat, ...)
 
  
 
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Revision as of 09:35, 16 June 2009

This page contains all the tutorials which should help you get using Avogadro efficiently.

Step-By-Step Walkthroughs

Here is an incomplete list of tutorials which need to be written:

  1. Tutorials:Getting started
Opening files, navigation, render settings
  1. Tutorials:Drawing molecules
Drawing, adding/removing hydrogens, editing atom coordinates, geometry optimization
  1. Tutorials:Making selections
Delete, copy/paste, operating on selections
  1. Tutorials:Display Types
Selecting, enabling, configuring your display
  1. Tutorials:Orbitals
Viewing output from quantum chemistry programs
  1. Tutorials:Altering Bonds
Changing bond length, angles, and dihedrals
  1. Tutorials:Molecular Mechanics
AutoOptimize, optimize geometry, and friends
  1. Tutorials:Force fields
Which force field to use, commonly made mistakes, tips, etc.
  1. Tutorials:Advanced molecular mechanics
Using constraints
  1. Tutorials:Console
Manipulating molecules in Avogadro, using the Python console

Video Tutorials