Electron density, potential and orbitals: ADFview

Select View from the SCM menu

ADFview will startup and show a picture of your molecule:

You can use ADFview to visualize all kinds of 'field' related properties: densities, orbitals, potentials, and so on. You actually have already used it before: the picture of the orbital that was created using ADFlevels was shown by ADFview.

Use the mouse to rotate, translate or zoom, as in ADFinput.

Select the 'Isosurface: Colored' command from the Add menu

Below the picture a control line will be created. ADFview creates one such line for all visual items and special fields (surfaces, cut planes, calculated fields, etc.) that you add.

In this particular case the control line contains two pull-down menus that you use to select the fields that you want to visualize.

From the first pull-down menu in the control line, select 'Density->SCF'

From the second pull-down menu in the control line, select 'Potential->SCF'

To demonstrate some other possibilities of ADFview, do the following:

Select the 'Double Isosurface' command from the Add menu
In the new control line, press on the pull-down menu and select an orbital
Click on the check box in the FIRST control line to hide the density

Select the 'Cut plane: Colored' command from the Add menu
In the new control line, press on the pull-down menu and select Density->SCF

You can save the picture you create using the Save Picture menu command:

Select 'Save Picture ..." from the File menu
Enter the name (without extension) of the file you want to create
Click Save

A picture with the (file)name you specified has been created.

You might want to explore some more of the possibilities of ADFview on your own. Many different properties can be visualized as you probably have noticed in the pull-down menus. Just do not activate Anti-Alias: it makes the pictures even better, but also slows down ADFview very very much.

When you are done, close the ADFview window:

Select Quit from the File menu