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Hengyuan

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Plot electron density difference contour with cube file

Dear Tian,

I tried to plot the density difference contour between a SCF converged water dimer and the two separate water molecules. Following your example 4.5.5 in the manual, I was able to generate the desired 2D contour plot using water-dimer.fchk - water1.fchk - water2.fchk. However, when I tried with cube file input, I couldn't get any 2D contour result. I also tried to generate the cube file with difference density, but after choosing plot planes, I got

4
-10 Return to main menu
-2 Obtain of deformation property
-1 Obtain of promolecule property
0 Set custom operation
             ----------- Avaliable real space functions -----------
1 Promolecular electron density
8 Electrostatic potential from nuclear charges
14 Reduced density gradient (RDG) with promolecular approximation
16 Sign(lambda2)*rho with promolecular approximation
22 Delta_g (promol. approx.)
100 User-defined real space function, iuserfunc=  0
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and the plotted 2D contour is that of water dimer instead of difference density. Is this function simply not available with cube type files? If it supports cube files, what should I do to print 2D contour? Thank you.