Change here the autonomy, the atoms to include and the instances of 
a crystallographic family, for a plane (or list of planes, previously 
selected with Plane->Select, when 
Global is pressed).
Parameters for empty entries or 
Local choices remain unchanged.
Autonomy
When 
Autonomy is 
None, rotating, moving, scaling the 
plane corresponds to rotating, moving, scaling the parent object. For 
crystallographic planes, the parent object is the cell containing the 
relevant crystallographic information. For atomic planes, the parent 
object is the first parent common to the three defining atoms. Atoms 
in the 
thickness region are linked to atomic planes.
When 
Autonomy is 
Partial the crystallographic or atomic
plane can be rotated, moved, scaled, independently of its parent.
Atoms in the 
thickness region are linked to atomic or
crystallographic planes.
When 
Autonomy is 
All the crystallographic or atomic
plane can be rotated, moved, scaled, independently of its parent.
Atoms in the 
thickness region are copied to atomic or
crystallographic planes.
Thickness
The polygonal representation of the plane is expanded as much as 
possible, limited by the cell volume, in crystallographic planes, 
and by the atoms within a 
Thickness range of the plane 
defined by the three atoms, in atomic planes.
Range
A crystallographic plane does not exist as a single plane, is always
part of a family of infinite planes, passing through all the lattice 
nodes, with equal distances between them. Each plane of a family 
(h k l) intersects the lattice in n/h n/k n/l, where n = 0 means 
the plane passing through the origin and n = 1 is the usual 
representation of the plane closest to the origin.
The range of planes to create is defined by the values entered near to 
the buttons 
Start and 
End, describing the initial and final 
values of n. For example, setting 
Start to 
-1 and 
End 
to 
1 creates 3 planes, intersecting the axes in: 1) -1/h -1/k -1/l; 
2) 0; 3) 1/h 1/k 1/l. By default, only the nearest plane to the origin is 
considered: 
Start = 
1 and 
End = 
1.
Pressing the 
Start button, the entry is disabled and GAMGI creates 
automatically all the planes from the beginning of the cell volume to the 
final plane specified. Pressing the 
End button, the entry is disabled
and GAMGI creates automatically all the planes from the end of the cell volume 
to the first plane specified. When both buttons are pressed, GAMGI creates
automatically all the planes from the beginning to the end of the cell volume.
Node
A plane can also be defined indicating explicitly the coordinates of 
a node where the plane passes. For each plane family, there is a plane 
passing through the origin node and as nodes are equivalent, it follows 
that for any node, there is a plane of any family passing through there. 
To select the node, press 
Node, to open a second level dialog.
o1, o2, o3
These entries provide the coordinates of the node in the lower-left
corner of the cell where the plane passes, calculated with conventional
or primitive cell vectors. When the lattice is primitive or vectors are
primitive, this corner node becomes the place where the plane passes.
o4
When the lattice is centered and vectors are conventional, a fourth 
coordinate 
o4 is needed to point the centered node where the 
plane passes. By default, 
o4 is 
000, so no change is 
introduced. When the cell lattice is primitive 
P or the vectors 
defining the node are primitive, that is the only possible value for 
o4. For I, C, F, R centered lattices, 
o4 can also take 
the values:
I: 111
C: 110
F: 110, 101, 011
R: 211, 122
corresponding to the numerators of the inner node coordinates,
(1/2 1/2 1/2) for 
I lattices, (1/2 1/2 0) for 
C
lattices, (0 1/2 1/2) (1/2 0 1/2) (1/2 1/2 0) for 
F
lattices and (1/3 2/3 2/3) (2/3 1/3 1/3) for 
R lattices.
After entering the node coordinates, pressing 
Ok saves the data,
closes the second level dialog, and disables the range information in
the first level dialog. Pressing 
Cancel, the current data in
both dialogs is maintained and the second level dialog is closed.
Pressing 
Range in the first level dialog, removes the second 
level data, closes the second level dialog, enables and initializes 
(if empty) the range data.
The vectors used for the node coordinates, 
Conventional
or 
Primitive, are those used to define the plane indices,
in the 
Type page, of the first dialog.
When adding information in the second level dialog, the cell must
have been entered before, so GAMGI can check if the node information is
correct or not. For the same reason, when the 
Cell or 
Vectors
information in the 
Type page is changed, all the information in the
second level dialog is automatically discarded, as it might be wrong.