FindIt is a Windows-based PC version typically used for local installations inside smaller research groups.

FindIt has been tested to run under Windows™ 95, 98, Me, XP (Pro) SP2, Vista Pro, SuSE Linux 10.3 and 11.1 (using WiNE). FindIt offers a huge set of features which make the search, retrieval and visualization of the desired information easy and comfortable:

Comprehensive search masks, extended crystal structure visualization and analysis tools, powder pattern simulation with the possibility of enhanced manipulation.

At present, the ICSD contains more than 161,000 entries, including

• 1,716 crystal structures of the elements
• 30,968 records for binary compounds
• 60,640 records for ternary compounds
• 56,730 records for quarternary and quintenary compounds
• About 122,000 entries (76%) have been assigned a structure type.
  There are currently 6,357 structure prototypes.

Tips and Tricks for FindIt can be found in the following documents:

How to find structure types in FindIt

How to find the new recorded data in FindIt

With release 2011.2 two new features are included in FindIt:
a detailed structure type search and an implementation of Structure Tidy for interactive standardization of ICSD entries. Guides to these new features can be found in the following file:
FindIt181_new_features.pdf

As of release 2011.2 FindIt (1.8.1) contains an implementation of Structure Tidy to interactively standardize crystal structures. The implementation delivered with the 2011.2 release DVD is not working on some Win7 64-bit systems. Please download the following patch file, execute it and follow the instructions: FindIt_2011_2_Std_patch.exe