T0T0R / BlenderCIF

Plugin for Blender software allowing the representation of cristallographic structures stored in CIF files.

Atomic Blender (CIF)

Plugin for Blender software allowing the representation of crystallographic structures stored in CIF files. This plugin is based on the "Atomic Blender (PDB/XYZ)" plugin written by Clemens Barth, and uses the same interface for loading CIF files.

How to use the plugin

1. Download the whole BlenderCIF repository, extract it and keep only the io_mesh_atomic_cif folder.
2. Move the io_mesh_atomic_cif folder in your Blender's plugins directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.4\3.4\scripts\addons).
3. This plugin uses the CIF parser of the gemmi library, so this package has to be installed for Blender's python interpreter.
   • Find the path of the Blender's python interpeter (e.g. C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.4\3.4\python\bin\python.exe),
   • In your terminal, run myPythonPath -m pip install gemmi by replacing myPythonPath by the path of your Blender's python interpeter. The gemmi package should be installed.
4. Open Blender, and in the Edit -> Preferences window, select the Add-ons tab. Type in the searchbar "atomic blender PDB/XYZ/CIF" and check the corresponding package.
5. Use File -> Import -> CIF to import CIF files.