Category:Tutorials

• Tutorials:Getting started

Opening files, navigation, render settings

• Tutorials:Drawing molecules

Drawing, adding/removing hydrogens, editing atom coordinates, geometry optimization

• Tutorials:Making selections

Delete, copy/paste, operating on selections

• Tutorials:Display Types

Selecting, enabling, configuring how molecules are displayed

• Tutorials:Altering Bonds

Changing bond length, angles, and dihedrals

• Tutorials:Orbitals

Viewing output from quantum chemistry programs

• Tutorials:Insert SMILES

Drawing structures with a SMILES string

• Tutorials:Insert a Peptide

Drawing and editing peptide structures

• Tutorials:Crystal Unit Cells

Working with crystals

• Tutorials:Molecular Mechanics

AutoOptimize, optimize geometry, and friends

• Tutorials:Force fields

Which force field to use, commonly made mistakes, tips, etc.

• Tutorials:Advanced molecular mechanics

Using constraints

• Tutorials:Console

Manipulating molecules in Avogadro, using the Python console

• Opening files and navigation (3.5MB)
• Drawing (3.3MB)
• Working with display types (26MB)

Some screencasts also are useful as tutorials.

• Tutorials:Polymer Unit Cell

Building a polythiophene unit cell for Gaussian (or other) calculation.

• Avogadro for P-Chem Lab

Building molecules with Avogadro for GAMESS-US calculations.

• Molecular Modeling Basics

Tutorials for Avogadro from Jan Jensen's Molecular Modeling Basics blog

• Introduction to GAMESS

Running GAMESS-US calculations with Avogadro