KPLOT

About KPLOT

The program KPLOT (written by Rudolf Hundt, Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany) 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:

• Various strategies for step-wise building up crystal structure models
• Plotting of ball-and-stick models, thermal ellipsoids and coordination polyhedra
• Symmetry analysis and transformation, space group determination
• Calculation of interatomic distances, angles and torsion angles
• Interfaces to SHELX, ORTEP, SCHAKAL, MISSYM, LAZY PULVERIX

KPLOT is available free-of-charge and can be downloaded from the link on the right side. For further information please contact the author directly:

Dr. Rudolf Hundt
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry
Gerhard-Domagk-Str. 1
D-53121 Bonn, Germany
email: hundt@uni-bonn.de

Download

• Create a subdirectory of your choice on your harddisc (e.g. C:\KPLOT).
• Download the compressed archive file by clicking on the link below.
• 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).

* for QT library version 2.2.1 or higher