Mercury是ccdc晶体数据库自带的一个y可以有效、直接地观看研究晶体结构的软件，也可担负安装使用。它提供了一些列强大的工具来观察晶体及其晶胞的结构。它有如下功能：
1，The ability to display multiple structures simultaneously and to perform least-squares overlay of pairs of structures
2，The ability to manually edit structures including the addition of hydrogen atoms, the addition of bonds, the editing of bond types and the removal of atoms, bonds and molecules
3，The ability to automatically assign bond-types, standardise bond-types to Cambridge Structural Database conventions and to add missing hydrogen atoms
4，The ability to display Bravais, Friedel, Donnay and Harker (BFDH) theoretical crystal morphologies。


Part 1

http://web.mit.edu/hg_v1.4/distr ... rtableHTML/TOC.html上面网站有该软件使用教程。下面是教程的标题目录，具体内容可以该主页观看或下载。看完这个你就会熟练使用Mercury了，可以画出你想要的图！

Table of Contents：

Conditions of Use

Contacting User Support

Acknowledgements

1 Overview of Mercury

2 Introduction to using Mercury

2.1 Overview of the Interface

2.2 Top-Level Menu

2.3 Picking Modes

2.4 Right-Clicking in the Display Area

2.5 Undoing Commands and Resetting the Display

2.5.1 Undoing Commands

2.5.2 Resetting the Display to the Default View Direction, Scale and Perspective

2.5.3 Removing Packing and Nonbonded Contacts

2.6 Selecting and Deselecting Atoms and Molecules

2.6.1 The Purpose of Selecting Atoms and Molecules

2.6.2 Ways of Selecting Atoms and Molecules

2.6.3 Identifying Selected Atoms

2.7 Several Ways of Doing Things

2.8 Command Line Options

3 Loading Structures

3.1 Loading the Cambridge Structural Database or Other CSD-Format Databases

3.2 Loading Structures Found by a ConQuest Search

3.3 Loading a Structure from a File

4 Selecting and Displaying Structures

4.1 Selecting and Displaying Individual Structures

4.2 Displaying Multiple Structures Simultaneously

4.3 Overlaying Crystal Structures

5 Moving the Display and Setting the View Direction

5.1 Translating the Display

5.2 Rotating the Display

5.3 Flipping the Display by 90 Degrees

5.4 Scaling the Display

5.5 Viewing Along Crystallographic Axes

5.6 Viewing Along and Perpendicular to Planes

5.7 Changing the Display Perspective

6 Customising the Display

6.1 Setting General Display Properties

6.1.1 Setting Lighting Effects

6.1.2 Setting Background Colours

6.1.3 Depth Cueing

6.2 Setting Global Structure Display Properties

6.2.1 Setting a Global Display Style

6.2.2 Setting a Global Colouring Scheme

6.2.3 Switching Hydrogens On and Off

6.2.4 Turning All Atom Labels On or Off

6.2.5 Colouring and Resizing All Labels

6.2.6 Customising the Display of Unit Cell Edges and Labels

6.3 Setting Display Properties for Particular Atom(s) or Bond(s)

6.4 Setting Ellipsoid Display Options

6.5 Using Display-Property Dialogue Boxes

6.5.1 Using the Atom Styles, Atom Labels, Atom Colours and Show/hide Dialogue Boxes

6.5.2 Using the Select Color Dialogue Box

6.6 Atom and Molecule Colouring Conventions

6.6.1 Standard Element Colours

6.6.2 Symmetry-Equivalence Colouring

6.7 Bond-Type Display Conventions

7 Centroids and Planes

7.1 Creating Centroids

7.2 Creating Least-Squares Mean Planes

7.3 Creating Miller Planes

7.4 Setting the Display Properties of Centroids and Planes

7.5 Deleting Centroids and Planes

8 Measurement

8.1 Measuring Distances, Angles and Torsions

8.2 Clearing Measurements

9 Displaying Crystal Packing, Slices Through Crystals and BFDH Crystal Morphologies

9.1 Displaying and Labelling Unit Cell Axes

9.2 Colouring Conventions for Unit Cell Axes

9.3 Displaying Packing Diagrams (Assemblies of Unit Cells)

9.3.1 Packing Ranges

9.3.2 Displaying the Contents of a Single Unit Cell

9.3.3 Displaying Several Unit Cells and Fractions of Unit Cells

9.3.4 Switching Packing On and Off

9.4 Displaying Slices Through Crystals

9.4.1 What a Slice Is

9.4.2 Defining and Displaying a Slice

9.5 Displaying Bravais, Friedel, Donnay and Harker (BFDH) Crystal Morphology Display Options

10 Finding Hydrogen Bonds and other Nonbonded Contacts

10.1 Overview of Nonbonded Contact Functionality

10.2 Basic Steps in Defining and Displaying Nonbonded Contacts

10.3 Default Nonbonded Contact Definitions

10.3.1 Default Definition of Hydrogen Bonds

10.3.2 Default Definition of Short Nonbonded Contacts

10.4 Defining New Types of Nonbonded Contacts

10.4.1 Specifying Distance Limits for Nonbonded Contacts

10.4.2 Intramolecular Nonbonded Contacts

10.4.3 Defining a New Type of Hydrogen Bond; The Define H-bonds Dialogue Box

10.4.4 Adding a New Short-Contact Definition; The Define Short Contacts Dialogue Box

10.4.5 Defining a New Type of Specific Contact; The Define Specific Contacts Dialogue Box

10.5 Editing and Copying Nonbonded Contact Definitions

10.6 Deleting Nonbonded Contact Definitions

10.7 Viewing Nonbonded Contact Definitions

10.8 Switching the Display of Nonbonded Contacts On and Off

10.9 Finding Out What Symmetry Operations Were Used to Generate Contacts

10.10 Listing a Summary of the Contacts on View

11 Building Networks of Nonbonded Contacts

11.1 The Purpose of Building a Network

11.2 Basic Steps in Building a Network

11.3 Colouring Conventions for Contacts

11.4 Setting Display Properties of Contacts

11.5 What Network Expansion Is

11.6 Methods for Network Expansion

11.7 Deleting Contacts from a Network

11.8 Deleting Molecules from a Network

11.9 Resetting a Network to Its Starting Point

12 Editing a Structure

12.1 Manually Editing a Structure

12.2 Auto-Editing Options

13 Displaying Additional Information about the Structure

13.1 Additional Data Items Available for Display

13.1.1 Display of Text Information

13.1.2 Chemical Diagram Display

13.1.3 Spreadsheet Display of Atoms and Their Properties

13.1.4 Spreadsheet Display of Bonds and Their Properties

13.1.5 Spreadsheet Display of Contacts and Their Properties

13.1.6 Spreadsheet Display of Centroids and Their Properties

13.1.7 Spreadsheet Display of Planes and Their Properties

13.1.8 Spreadsheet Display of Space Group Symmetry Operators

13.1.9 Spreadsheet Display of Distances, Angles and Torsion Angles

13.2 Controlling which Data Items are Displayed

13.3 Manipulating Spreadsheets

13.4 Saving Spreadsheets

14 Powder Diffraction Patterns

14.1 Displaying and Saving Powder Diffraction Patterns

14.2 Technical Details of the Powder Pattern Simulation

15 Saving Files and Copying to the Clipboard

15.1 Saving Mercury Displays as Images

15.2 Saving Structures in Mercury Format

15.3 Saving Structures in External (3rd Party) Formats

15.4 Copying Images to the Clipboard

Appendix A: Glossary and Technical Details

Appendix B: Keyboard Shortcuts

Appendix C: Tutorials

Tutorial 1: Exploring Nonbonded Interactions

Tutorial 2: Rationalising Crystal Morphology

Tutorial 3: Investigating Pseudosymmetry

Tutorial 4: Looking for Possible Missing Water Molecules

Tutorial 5: Investigating Polymorphism

Tutorial 6: Examining Atomic Displacement Parameters and Displacement Ellipsoids

Part 2
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