Selecting Nearest Neighbours in CrystalMaker

You can select the nearest-neighbours for a particular atom in CrystalMaker, and this can be repeated to get the second, third, fourth... neighbours. This is useful if you wish to re-colour your structure, showing different colours for atoms in progressively-more-distance coordination shells.

Selecting Nearest Neighbours:

The following steps assume that you have a correctly-bonded structure, in which the atom of interest is bonded to one or more neighbours.

To select nearest neighbours around a selected atom:

  1. Select the atom whose neighbours you wish to show.

  2. Right-click in the Graphics pane to display a contextual menu, then choose: Extend Selection > Nearest Neighbours (command-E for short).

    The first-nearest neighbours are now selected.

  3. Repeat the command to select the second, third, fourth... nearest neighbours.