Diamond Version 3: Individual assignment of model

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In Diamond 2, the model (ball-and-stick, space-filling etc.) was a global setting. Now it can be assigned individually to selected atoms. That means you can display ball-and-stick, space-filling, ellipsoid, and sticks or wires in one and the same picture.

Diamond 2 has also the limitation that ORTEP-like styles (ellipses and open octants) could only be displayed in flat mode but not in rendering mode, where solid ellipsoids are displayed instead.
In Diamond 3 you have the opportunity to display these styles even in rendering mode with variable line weights for the ellipses and colors for the octant walls. This may be important for instance, if you need to distinguish atom types in black-on-white printings of a rendered structure picture. Like all atom designs, these styles may be assigned to atoms groupwise or individually.

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