KPLOT Download Area
About KPLOT
The program KPLOT was written by Rudolf Hundt (1941 - 2020) at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry,
University of Bonn, Germany and is designed to draw and analyse crystal
structures. Starting from the first version in 1979 the software has been
continously improved and updated. It provides:
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Various strategies for step-wise building up crystal structure models
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Facility to work with two crystal structures at the same time
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Tools for the comparison of two crystal structures
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Plotting of ball-and-stick models, thermal ellipsoids and coordination
polyhedra
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Symmetry analysis and transformation, space group determination
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Calculation of interatomic distances, angles and torsion angles
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Interfaces to SHELX, ORTEP, SCHAKAL, MISSYM, LAZY PULVERIX
KPLOT is available free-of-charge and can be downloaded from
one of the links at the bottom of this page.
Documentation
A tutorial as well as a comprehensive reference manual (both as
PDF-files) are contained in the download archives below.
Download
To download and install KPLOT on your computer, follow these
steps:
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Create a subdirectory of your choice on your harddisc (e.g. C:\KPLOT).
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Download the compressed archive file by clicking on the link below.
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Uncompress it into the subdirectory using WinZip or a similar tool.
No further installation is necessary. Start the software by clicking on the
'kpwin.exe' executable file. Documentation (in English) is included in the
common Acrobat Reader format (kpdoce.pdf).
Operating System |
File name |
Size |
Vers. |
Date |
Windows |
kpwin.zip |
2.9 MBytes |
9.6.15 |
June 23, 2012 |
Linux (for QT library version 2.2.1 or higher) |
kplot.tar.gz |
1.6 MBytes |
9.6.15 |
June 23, 2012 |
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