MolDraw is a free software running on Windows PC. It reads GAUSSIAN output file (and many other formats) visualizing vibrations.

MolDraw main features

• Easy menus driven interface following the MS-Windows standard GUI
• Full interactive rotation and zooming of the structure
• Easy input of structure information by unformatted ASCII .MOL files
• Relevant results of the interactive session written to the .LOG file
• Conversion of structures retrieved from:
  • Protein Data Bank
  • Inorganic Crystal Structure Database
  • GAUSSIAN92/94 output file
  • MOPAC6.0 output file
• Generation of crystal unit cell and larger portion of the crystal
• Support for 230 spatial groups
• Orientation of the structure along any direct/reciprocal crystallographic direction
• Clipping tool to highlight interior features of any structure
• Tools to:
  • Setting various atomic parameters
  • Rename, delete, hide and label atoms
  • Delete all atoms outside an atom centered sphere
  • Link and unlink pairs of atoms
  • Find molecular fragments within a structure
  • Making the enantiomorph
• Geometrical tools to measure distances, angles and torsion angles
• Printing the complete list of bond, angles and torsion angles to the .LOG file
• Computation of the molecular volume
• Computation of the non-bonded energy based on Coulombic and exp-6 terms
• Rendering of the structure with the following models:
  • Stick
  • Stick and balls
  • Wire
  • Tubes
  • Red and blue stereo
  • Black ink on white paper (to be included in papers)
  • Balls and spokes and solid (PLUTO like representation)
  • Simple CPK (quick/no shading)
  • Shading CPK (32K color screen driver for good results)
  • Dots CPK
  • Molecular bidimensional CPK envelope
• Display and animation of molecular vibrations from GAUSSIAN9x and MOPAC calculations
• Cut of structures to the clipboard or to .BMP files
• Export of the coordinates to PLUTO78, PLUTON and SHACKAL programs