Hi,

I'm trying to generate Band Structure/DOS plots for a number of periodic systems I work on in CASTEP.  Unfortunately Materials Studio is not always recognising the .castep files i transfer in.  We've had a number of similar problems with ELF.  I've tried a number of things:

(1) dragging and dropping the files in vs. importing

(2) recovering the files from our cluster in various formats (ASCII/binary/auto etc)

(3) having the files open/closed but highlighted, double clicking on them while the castep analysis box was up etc etc

The band structure generator works for some files but not others and regardless of how I play with them I can't seem to get them to work.  In frustration yesterday I completely reran a castep job, got exactly the same .castep file out but this time Materials Studio magically recognised it.   I did think that maybe there was an error in the files but after going through a few of them line by line there is nothing i can see which would cause it to not be recognised, they're both valid band structure calcs.  Has anyone seen this problem/have a solution I could use?

Cheers,

Calum