# YouTube Walkthroughs

**URL:** <https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/youtube-walkthroughs/7223>\
**Category:** Documentation\
**Created:** [November 8, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/youtube-walkthroughs/7223 "2025-11-08T23:13:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/youtube-walkthroughs/7223/1 "2025-11-08T23:13:02Z")

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I’m going to post links to the [YouTube walkthrough videos](https://www.youtube.com/@AvogadroProject), in part to make them easier to find:

- **Introduction and Key Skills**
  1. [Intro & Welcome](https://youtu.be/TUEF7tqLOg4)
  2. [Download by name and simple sketches](https://youtu.be/DRWzQanz8Cc)
  3. [Building with the Template Tool](https://youtu.be/RC4NZp6nnD8)

- **Display and Visualization**  
4. [Different display styles and rendering options](https://youtu.be/kLQrftlSiRM)  
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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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/youtube-walkthroughs/7223/2 "2025-11-09T18:25:59Z")

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