We rely heavily on software written for the fable project. Fable is a collection of packages for multigrain crystallography. Some are still maintained, others have not been touched for 10 years. Recently, a new website was started: FABLE-3DXRD. The idea is to recreate a group of active researcher with software packages that are actually maintained.

There is competition: HEXRD, written and maintained by J. Bernier in the United States. Joel is actively working on HEXRD so one should keep an eye on it.

If something is available on FABLE-3DXRD, you should get it from there. Otherwise, you can download it from fable project.

Here is a list of packages we use. When you click on the links below, you will get additional information on downloading and installing the software.

• TIMEleSS Viewer : to look at diffraction images, check orientation matrices, calculation of median / average / background images, and plotting harvested peaks
• Peaksearch: look for peaks (part of ImageD11)
• ImageD11: experimental parameters refinement, peak assignment, can do grain indexing
• GrainSpotter: grain indexing
• FitAllB: second stage refinement
• PolyXSim: simulation of diffraction data
• xfab: a python library with crystallographic computations
• Specific TIMEleSS tools: a collection of scripts from the TIMEleSS projects, for both pre- and post-processing
• MTeX : to plot grain orientations

Details on each piece of software and when to use them can be seen in the Multigrain data processing workflow page.

Getting started with a Fable-3RDX software set can be hard.

Here is a dedicated page on * Getting started with a python environement (recommended) * Getting started with Anaconda

• MTeX: texture analysis, plot of grain orientations
• MAUD: powder diffraction analysis
• Dioptas: python-based program for on-the-fly data processing and exploration of two-dimensional X-ray diffraction area detector data, used on most of high pressure beamlines and by many other crystallography groups throughout the world.