plaid-xrd 0.0.5

plaid is a simple visualization tool intended to quickly evaluate azimuthally integrated powder diffraction data

plaid - plot azimuthally integrated data

plaid is a simple visualization tool intended to quickly evaluate azimuthally integrated powder diffraction data and compare to known structures, provided by the user in the form of CIF files.
The main data format is HDF5 files, inspired by the NeXus file formats.

Installation

Install plaid from the Python Package Index PyPi with:
pip install plaid-xrd

Start the application from a terminal with:
plaid

Example

The main window of plaid

• Drag/drop an .h5 file into the main window or browse from File -> Open
• Change the pattern by moving the horizontal lines with the mouse or the arrow keys
• Add a new moveable line by double-clicking the heatmap, remove a line by right-clicking it
• Click the symbols in the pattern legend to show/hide the patterns
• Drag/drop a .cif file into the main window or browse from File -> Load CIF
• Click on a reference line to show its reflection index

File tree context menu

• Right-click on a file in the file tree to add $I_0$ or auxiliary data
• Right-click on two or more selected files to group them

Export patterns

• Save the export settings in Export -> Export settings

Hotkeys

Key	Action
L	Toggle log scale for the heatmap
Q	Toggle between q and 2θ axes
↑	Move the active line one frame up
↓	Move the active line one frame down
←	Move the active line several frames down
→	Move the active line several frames up