7.3 Creating Miller Planes

Open the Plane Properties dialogue box:

by choosing Calculate from the top-level menu, Planes... from the pull-down menu and then clicking on New Plane... in the Planes dialogue box;

or by choosing Display from the top-level menu, Packing/Slicing... from the pull-down menu and then clicking on the New... button in the Packing and Slicing dialogue box.

Select the hkl tab in the Plane Properties dialogue box. This allows you to create a new Miller plane by entering the appropriate integer indices h, k, l.

You can use the options in the bottom part of the Plane Properties dialogue box to set display properties such as label and colour (see Section 7.4).