YouTube Walkthroughs

I’m going to post links to the YouTube walkthrough videos, in part to make them easier to find:

  • Introduction and Key Skills
    1. Intro & Welcome
    2. Download by name and simple sketches
    3. Building with the Template Tool
  • Display and Visualization
    4. Different display styles and rendering options
    5. Customizing colors
  • Optimization and Precise Editing
    6. Basic optimizing (auto-optimize tool vs. optimize geometry command)
    7. Editing bond lengths, angles, etc.
    8. Adding geometry constraints (bonds, angles, torsions, freezing atoms)
    9. Generating and optimizing conformers
  • Advanced Building
    10. Inserting SMILES and fragments
    11. Building inorganic and organometallic molecules
    12. Creating polymers and large structures
    13. Building peptides & DNA
  • Analysis and Properties
    14. Partial charges & dipole moment
    15. Orbitals & electron density
    16. Surfaces
    17. Vibrations
    18. Spectra
    10. Symmetry
  • Crystals and Materials
    20. Importing crystals & editing unit cells
    21. Creating materials / slabs
  • Tips, Tricks and Extensions
    22. Using layers
    23. Installing plugins
    24. Python scripts

Please include comments, suggestions, or topics you’d like to see

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As for suggestions, I’m open to ideas for other video platforms (e.g., not tied to YouTube)…