Aten is a tool to create, edit, and visualise coordinates. It was written primarily to be of use to people performing simulations of condensed matter, but it may very well be useful to others out there dealing with non-periodic systems.
In brief, Aten can:
Provide a GUI for editing atomic coordinates
Create models, even periodic ones, from scratch
Randomly add in molecules to periodic boxes, allowing disordered systems to be created
Handle several crystal formats, and can replicate and scale unit cells
Load and save model data in several model formats out of the box
Cater for any model format you wish with its Filters system
Render other primitive object types, as well as surface/gridded data
Load in vibration/frequency data and animate it
Be fully scripted / automated from the command line
Load in and apply forcefield terms to a model with its easy-to-read typing language
Energy minimise (periodic) models
Run on Linux, Mac, and Windows
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