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serif">Wikipedia has a list of crystal structure databases at: <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_database#Crystal_structures_2">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_database#Crystal_structures_2</a><br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I like the
"Crystallography Open Database (COD)", because unlike ICSD, it
doesn't cost anything to get the cif files.<br>
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On 4/6/2014 8:09 PM, eagle ying wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thank you
very much, Gavin. You have mentioned all the problems I
encountered. Yes, at first, I used the VESTA, then found it is
a little inconvenient, I directly input the parameters read
from the cif file. We can visit Bilbao normally, but not ICSD
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serif">2014-4-4 ÏÂÎç12:21ÓÚ "Gavin Abo" <<a
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that cif2struct doesn't work with some cif formats.<br>
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You might try VESTA [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://jp-minerals.org/vesta/en/download.html"
target="_blank">http://jp-minerals.org/vesta/en/download.html</a>].<br>
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Sometimes I'm able to open the cif file just fine in
VESTA, use File->Export Data, and save as a VESTA
cif. Then, cif2struct usually works with the VESTA cif
file.<br>
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Some space groups are a typical problem for Wien2k
users, for example spacegroup 227 [<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg02061.html"
target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg02061.html</a>].
This is because articles and cif files of spacegroup 227
are usually given in the origin 1 setting.<br>
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In cases when cif2struct fails to convert from one
spacegroup setting to another needed for Wien2k (for
example, origin 1 to origin 2), you can use VESTA to
convert (Edit->Edit Data->Unit Cell, then select
the symmetry "Setting") and export a cif in the desired
spacegroup setting before doing cif2struct.<br>
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However, to avoid program conversion errors and to save
time, it is sometimes easier just to open the cif file
in a text editor and find what the spacegroup, lattice
parameters, and atomic positions are, and then enter
them directly in the StructGen. And, if the spacegroup
setting needs changed, I first use Bilbao
Crystallographic Server's SETSTRU [<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cryst.ehu.es/cryst/setstru.html"
target="_blank">http://www.cryst.ehu.es/cryst/setstru.html</a>]
to do the conversion .<br>
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Hope that helps and good luck.<br>
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On 4/3/2014 8:51 PM, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:leithron@gmail.com" target="_blank">leithron@gmail.com</a>
wrote:<br>
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serif">dear users:<br>
while I try to convert a cif file to structfile,
an error came out: wrong syntax in
_symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz: record 49 component 2. Is
there any means to fix this?<br>
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