Tips

• Tear off field pull-down menus in ADFview
• Tear off normal mode menus in ADFspectra
• Right click (or click and hold down) on a bond or atom for a useful pop-up menu
• Right click (or click and hold down) on a bond to show or hide bonds
• Right click (or click and hold down) on an atom to change its properties
• Right click (or click and hold down) on an atom to select all similar elements
• Right click (or click and hold down) on an atom or selection to add structures
• Structure Tool: Double click on atom to replace it with a structure
• Structure Tool: Click in empty space and connect the structure to an atom
• Structure Tool: The Spacebar sets the last used Structure too
• Your own structures: save the .adf file in the $SCM_STRUCTURES folder
• Make use of 'set origin' and dummy atoms when making your own structures
• The help menu offers a direct link to the online tutorial for ADF-GUI
• The help menu offers a direct link to the ADF reference manual
• Toggle the tips in the View menu and in your preferences
• Change the default background color for all GUI-modules in your preferences
• Change the default atom colors using the pop-up menu on an atom
• Use the SCM menu (the logo)
• Zoom: drag the mouse up or down holding the right button or command-left
• Translate: drag the mouse while holding the middle button or alt-left
• Rotate: drag the mouse while holding the left button
• Rotate in Plane: drag the mouse while holding the ctrl-key
• Rotate Selection: drag while holding the mouse button down on the selection
• Select using shift-drag in space will select all atoms within the rectangle
• Use Anti-Alias to save high quality pictures (slow ...)
• Save your default calculation setup by using the templates
• Use the PropertiesOnly option to avoid re-calculation
• Use the None preset to save only yellof fields in a preset
• Use the atom toolbuttons and doubleclick to change the chosen atom
• The C-key sets the Carbon tool
• The H-key sets the Hydrogen tool
• The N-key sets the Nitrogen tool
• The O-key sets the Oxygen tool
• The F-key sets the Fluorine tool
• The P-key sets the Phosphorus tool
• The S-key sets the Sulfur tool
• The Esc-key sets the Pointer tool
• The 1-key sets the single-bond mode
• The 2-key sets the double-bond mode
• The 3-key sets the triple-bond mode
• The 4-key sets the aromatic-bond mode
• Add hydrogen works on all available sites if you have no atoms selected
• Constrain bond lengths while building? Toggle this option in the Edit menu
• Bond Length: Select two atoms and, if possible, change the bond length
• Bond Angle: Select three atoms and, if possible, change the angle
• Dihedral Angle: Select four atoms and, if possible, change the angle
• Plane angle: Select five atoms that define two planes and change the angle
• Change the order of the atoms in the coordinates panel
• Changing the order of the atoms will affect the internal coordinates
• Deleting or adding bonds will affect the internal coordinates
• Use the User Input field to add anything you like to the ADF input file
• Double click the .run file in ADFjobs to edit it
• Click on "..." in ADFinput to quickly go to the relevant detail panel