Category:Tutorials

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

Video tutorials and screencasts can be found on YouTube.

Flash tutorials:

1. Opening files and navigation (3.5MB)
2. Drawing (3.3MB)
3. Working with display types (26MB)

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

1. Tutorials:Getting started (opening files, navigation, settings (quality))
2. Tutorials:Drawing molecules (draw tool, hydrogens extension, cartesian editor, quick optimization (using defaults), ...)
3. Tutorials:Force fields Which force field to use, commonly made mistakes, tips, ...
4. 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, ...)
5. Tutorials:Engines (selecting, enabling, configuring)
6. Tutorials:Console (manipulating molecules in Avogadro, using the Python console)
7. Tutorials:Orbitals (orbital engine/extension)
8. Tutorials:Using the bond centric tool
9. Tutorials:Molecular mechanics (force field extension, AutoOpt tool)
10. Tutorials:Advanced molecular mechanics (using constraints to make cyclohexane go from chair to boat, ...)