• Frequently Asked Questions

DASH Manual Pages

• Introduction
• General Features of the Windows Interface
• Data Collection and Data Treatment
• Preliminary Inspection of Profile
• General Hints on Selecting, Fitting and Measuring Peaks
• Indexing
• Space Group Determination
• Pawley Fitting
• Building and Constraining Molecules
• Structure Solution
• Running DASH in Grid Mode or Batch Mode
• Rigid-body Rietveld refinement
• Preparation of Single Crystal Data

Appendixes

• Programs for Indexing and Cell Reduction
• Programs for Building 3D Molecules
• Definitions of DASH Figures of Merit
• Frequency of Occurrence of Space Groups
• Extinction Symbols and their Space Groups
• Using the Cambridge Structural Database
• Z-matrix format
• References

Tutorials

• Tutorial 1: Step-by-Step Structure Solution of Hydrochlorothiazide
• Tutorial 2: Solving a Structure from a Low Resolution Data Set
• Tutorial 3: Handling cis/trans Isomerism
• Tutorial 4: Handling a Structure in Which There is a Space Group Ambiguity
• Tutorial 5: Dealing with Two Molecules in the Asymmetric Unit
• Tutorial 6: Solving the Structure of an Inorganic Compound

Developing DASH

• Provisioning a build machine
• Building DASH
• Smoke Tests