Installation Guide
Explains how to instal MTEX on you computer.
Download
The MTEX toolbox is available for Windows, Linux and MAC-OSX at: http://code.google.com/p/mtex/
MATLAB
Since MTEX is a MATLAB toolbox, MATLAB has to be installed in order to use MTEX. So far the MTEX toolbox has been tested with MATLAB versions 7.1 and higher. No additional addons or packages are necessary.
Installation
In order to install MTEX proceed as follows
- extract MTEX to an arbitrary folder
- start MATLAB
- navigate to the MTEX folder
- type 'startup_mtex'
Installation for All Users
If you are a system administrator and want to install MTEX such that it is available to all users of the computer, then
- copy the MTEX directory to MATLAB_directoty/toolbox/mtex
- rename mtex/startup_root.m to mtex/startup.m overwritting the old file mtex/startup.m
- move mtex/startup.m to MATLAB_directoty/toolbox/local
- start MATLAB
Checking Your Installation
After the next start of MATLAB you should see either the message
'MTEX toolbox loaded'
ans = MTEX toolbox loaded
or in the case of a All User Installation
'in order to start the MTEX toolbox type: startup_mtex'
ans = in order to start the MTEX toolbox type: startup_mtex
After the MTEX toolbox is loaded you can check your installation by typing
check_mtex
checking MTEX installation this might take some time simulating pole figures pf = PoleFigure crystal symmetry : m-3m specimen symmetry: 222 h = (100), r = 1 x 206 points h = (110), r = 1 x 206 points h = (111), r = 1 x 206 points h = (211), r = 1 x 206 points ------ MTEX -- PDF to ODF inversion ------------------ Call c-routine initialize solver start iteration error: 8.2110E-02 2.2828E-02 1.1396E-02 7.4612E-03 5.8534E-03 4.7929E-03 4.0929E-03 3.4589E-03 2.9928E-03 2.5734E-03 2.2540E-03 Finished PDF-ODF inversion. error: 2.2540E-03 alpha: 9.9983E-01 9.9975E-01 9.9964E-01 9.9982E-01 required time: 2s ghost correction calculate with fixed background 0.73 initialize solver start iteration error: 5.0183E-01 2.9200E-01 1.9060E-01 1.3656E-01 9.7762E-02 6.7339E-02 4.4499E-02 2.9389E-02 2.0824E-02 1.6300E-02 1.3990E-02 1.2812E-02 Finished PDF-ODF inversion. error: 1.2812E-02 alpha: 1.0010E+00 9.9999E-01 9.9996E-01 9.9979E-01 rec = ODF crystal symmetry : m-3m specimen symmetry: 222 Uniform portion: weight: 0.73013 Radially symmetric portion: kernel: de la Vallee Poussin, halfwidth 10° center: 150 orientations, resolution: 10° weight: 0.26987 check reconstruction error: everythink seems to be ok! Elapsed time is 3.816212 seconds.
Configuration and Troubleshooting
You can configure your MTEX installation by editting the file mtex_settings.m. See Configuration for more details! This page contains also some workarounds for known problems.
Don't hesitate to contact the authors of MTEX if you have any problems.
Compile MTEX Your Self
Compiling MTEX is only neccesary if the provided binaries does not run on your system (e.g. if you have a 64 bit system) or if you want to optimize them to you specific system. Compiling intstructions can be found here.
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