General Discussion

Suggestions Suggestions about improving Avogadro - feature requests, blue-sky, and plans. Documentation Specific discussion about Avogadro documentation, including the manual, website, and other material Support Discussion about problems or potential bugs with Avogadro - what doesn’t work and why

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
Avogadro 2026 Roadmap General Discussion Following the 2024 and 2025 roadmaps. Avogadro 2.0 Intended for release on 06 Feb 2026 (i.e., 06.02) This will mostly concentrate on bug fixes, performance and polish, including a revised plugin system and updated do…	1	84	January 17, 2026
About the General Discussion category General Discussion	1	1977	May 1, 2017
Gaussian output not recognized Support	3	4	January 25, 2026
Orbital Table with open-shell alpha/beta General Discussion	14	21	January 23, 2026
Simple MD Experiment General Discussion	1	19	January 22, 2026
Issues with nightly, bond representation, avogenerators Support	6	20	January 21, 2026
Interest in Mac and Windows "bundled" xtb General Discussion	3	21	January 20, 2026
Vibrational Spectra Scale Factor and Offset Not Working Support	4	65	January 19, 2026
Avo2 does not display optimized geometry from Gaussian output Support	4	20	January 17, 2026
Crash when deleting atoms from pdb file Support	5	36	January 17, 2026
Save files in-place (e.g., editing XYZ files) General Discussion	2	26	January 17, 2026
Avo_xtb extraction failed General Discussion	4	32	January 3, 2026
Request for Atom Renaming Feature Before PDB Export in Avogadro Suggestions	3	30	December 28, 2025
Compute iso surface value of orbital vs potential General Discussion	7	83	December 26, 2025
Open Babel conformer search help Support	1	44	December 22, 2025
Reset axis origin Support	2	39	December 15, 2025
Mouse scroll can only zoom out occasionally Support	11	86	December 12, 2025
Rotate / Translate / Zoom with Draw & Template Tools General Discussion	6	46	December 6, 2025
PubChem 2D SDF File to Avogadro 3D File Maximum Size Inquiry? General Discussion	10	82	December 4, 2025
Release Plans for 2.0 General Discussion	1	69	November 30, 2025
Updating Documentation General Discussion	0	27	November 25, 2025
Installing plugins specifically Avogenerators downloads files but no new inputs appear Support	1	47	November 25, 2025
Energy Calculation using Different Force Fields General Discussion	4	56	November 24, 2025
[Avogadro-Discuss] Visualizing vibrations from NWChem General Discussion	11	1541	November 24, 2025
Display atom index visually General Discussion	2	33	November 20, 2025
Avogadro2 can not properly read MOPAC aux file General Discussion	6	76	November 22, 2025
3 Million Downloads General Discussion	0	27	November 18, 2025
Incorrect MO number in creating surface from MOPAC results Support	11	95	November 18, 2025
Does anyone know what has changed with the rendering of MOs since earlier this year? General Discussion	6	74	November 16, 2025
Avogadro 2 not opening General Discussion	4	67	November 15, 2025