XMView Main Features:

Visual components

• customizable, standard visualization techniques for
• molecular representation (atoms, bonds, etc.)
• Cell boundaries, unit cell representation and repetition
• Asymmetric and symmetric unit within each cell
• Solvent accessibility surfaces (using MSMS);
• Miller planes within cell boundaries

File options

• Supports crt, pdb, and project files
• multiple molecules can be opened and viewed at the
• same time
• exports several different file formats, including:
  • Inventor
  • VRML1
  • ART (raytrace)
  • POVRAY

and Cross platform

• Unix based, including IRIX , SUN, and Linux, and soon others.
• Supports low end desktops, as well as high end graphics workstations
• project files can be created on the desktop, and loaded directly onto immersive systems (CAVE, Idesk)

IU, Bloomington
Dept. of Chemistry
Chemistry Library