There are several programs/utilities that can be used in connection with Maud. Some of them can load Maud results and subprocess them. Others can be used to perform specific tasks outside Maud and their output loaded back in it. Or there are some web sites, databases easily usable by Maud. We will keep a list of such program/utilities/web sites/etc. in this page.

Programs

Beartex is a very complete package for texture analysis. It is the perfect program to manipulate pole figures and ODFs exported by Maud to process them, polt sections or transform in other formats. In alternative the old Popla program (Los alamos) can be also of help, but the pole figure output of Maud (Beartex compatible) need to be modified to be loaded in Popla (couple of blank lines to be stripped out for each pole figure).

Dicvol91 can be used for indexing. Maud after peak location can export a dicvol91 input file. The indexing is done by running Dicvol91 (not provided with Maud) on the file exported to produce a typical Dicvol result file. Then Maud can import this result file and rank the space groups on each solution selected. A version of dicvol91 with source code to be compiled on non windows systems can be found in the Museum of Armel Le Bail web site

Web sites and databases

From the COD (Crystallography Open Database) several crystal structures can be downloaded as CIF files to be imported in Maud. Maud can also submit a CIF file with your refined crystal structure. Don't use it silly. I strongly recommend to submit new structures there. Keep in mind is a powerful resource especially for low developed countries. In the future it will be possible to search a structure in COD directly from Maud and download it inside the program.

The ICSD is a inorganic structural database. Structures can be exported in CIF format that Maud can import directly.

Maud libraries

SgInfo is a library to manipulate space groups. Maud uses a special SgInfo library translated in Java, available on request.

ImageJ is a wonderful program/library to manipulate images. Maud uses the library inside to load and process images. The library can be extended with several plug-ins. Have a look on the web site.

SGT Graphic Package is a library from Los Alamos used in Maud for maps and 2D plotting.

Jogl is a native library for OpenGl rendering in Java. It is used by Maud for all 3D plotting.