The Software of Crystal Structure Vesta

VESTA is a 3D visualization program for structural models, volumetric data such as electron/nuclear densities, and crystal morphologies. Some of the novel features of VESTA are listed below.

• Deal with multiple structural models, volumetric data, and crystal morphologies in the same window.
• Support multiple tabs corresponding to files.
• Support multiple windows with more than two tabs in the same process.
• Deal with virtually unlimited number of objects such as atoms, bonds polyhedra, and polygons on isosurfaces (theoretical limit on 32bit operating system is 1,073,741,823)
• Support lattice transformation from conventional to non-conventional lattice by using matrix. The transformation matrix is also used to create superlattice and sublattice.
• Visualize interatomic distances and bond angles that are restrained in Rietveld analysis with RIETAN-FP.
• Transparent isosurfaces can be overlap with structural models.
• Isosurface can be colored on the basis of another physical quantity.
• Arithmetic operations among multiple volumetric data files.
• High quality smooth rendering of isosurfaces and sections.
• Export high-resolution graphic images exceeding Video card limitation.

VESTA is a successor to two 3D visualization programs, VICS and VEND, in the VENUS (Visualization of Electron/NUclear and Structures) software package.
VESTA runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It is contributed free of charge for non-commercial users.

Latest versions

 Windows

• VESTA.zip (ver. 3.3.2, built on Nov 12 2015, 13.2MB)
  For 32-bit version of Windows.
• VESTA-win64.zip (ver. 3.3.2, built on Nov 12 2015, 16.0MB)
  For 64-bit version of Windows.

 Mac OS X

• VESTA.dmg (ver. 3.3.2, built on Nov 12 2015, 16.2MB)
  Requires Mac OS X 10.6 or newer, Intel CPUs that are capable of 64 bit instruction sets.

 Linux

• VESTA-i686.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.3.2, built on Nov 12 2015, 11.6MB)
  
  Distributions where VESTA is known to work.
  
  • Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
  • openSUSE 11.2, 11.3
  • Redhat Enterprise Linux 5, 6
  • Ubuntu 9.10, 10.10
• VESTA-x86_64.tar.bz2 (ver. 3.3.2, built on Nov 12 2015, 21.2MB)
  
  Distributions where VESTA is known to work.
  
  • Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20
  • openSUSE 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12,2
  • Redhat Enterprise Linux 5, 6
  • Ubuntu 9.10, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04

♦ Tutorials

• Tutorials.7z (uploaded on Dec 14 2011, 34.8MB)
  
  Only data files for tutorials are included but no explanations are supplied yet.
  If you don't have any software to extract the 7z archive, install the following software.
  
  • 7-Zip (Windows)
  • keka (Mac OS X)

Supported file formats

Input Structure data VESTA format (*.vesta) VICS format (*.vcs) American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database (*.amc) asse (*.asse) Chem3D CIF (Crystallographic Information File) CrystalMaker text file (*.cmt) CSSR (Crystal Structure Search and Retrieval) CSD/FDAT DL_POLY CONFIG FEFF input file (feff.inp) FHI-AIMS input file (*.in) GEOMETRY.OUT output by the Elk FP-LAPW Code GSAS format (*.EXP) ICSD (Inorganic Crystal Structure Database) ICSD-CRYSTIN MDL Molfile MINCRYST (Crystallographic Database for Minerals) MOLDA PDB (Protein Data Bank) Input file of RIETAN-FP (*.ins) Output file of RIETAN-FP (*.lst) Input file of SHELXL (*.ins, *.res) Output files of STRUCTURE TIDY (*.sto) Structure data files output by USPEX. WIEN2k (*.struct) XMol XYZ (*.xyz) F01 for SCAT and C04D for contrd MXDORTO/MXDTRICL FILE06.DAT, FILE07.DAT XTL file (*.xtl) Volumetric data PRIMA binary format (*.pri; *.prim) MEED/PRIMA text data (*.den) Energy Band (*.eb) General volumetric-data (text format) (*.?ed) Periodic volumetric-data (text format) (*.grd) General volumetric-data (binary format) (*.ggrid) Periodic volumetric-data (binary format) (*.pgrid) Compressed volumetric-data format (*.m3d) SCAT volumetric-data files (*.sca, *.scat) WIEN2k (*.rho) obtained with wien2venus.py WinGX 3D Fourier (*.fou) X-PLOR/CNX (*.xplor) Structure & volumetric data CASTEP (*.cell, *.charg_frm) GAMESS input and 3D surface data files output by MacMolPlt Gaussian Cube format VASP XCrySDen XSF format

Output Structure data Original format of VESTA (*.vesta) Chem3D CIF (Crystallographic Information File) DL_POLY CONFIG PDB (Protein Data Bank) Standard input file of RIETAN-FP (*.ins) XMol XYZ VASP POSCAR format VRML (*.wrl) Input files of MADEL (*.pme) Input files of STRUCTURE TIDY (*.sto) P1 structure (*.p1) Fractional coordinates (*.xtl) Volumetric data PRIMA binary format (*.pri) General volumetric-data (text format) (*.?ed) Periodic volumetric-data (text format) (*.grd) General volumetric-data (binary format) (*.ggrid) Periodic volumetric-data (binary format) (*.pgrid) Compressed volumetric-data format (*.m3d) Graphic formats (raster image) BMP EPS JPEG JPEG 2000 PNG PPM RAW RGB (SGI) TGA TIFF Graphic formats (vector image) EPS PDF PS SVG