Welcome to pythonEBSD

Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) is a microanalytical technique used in scanning electron microscopes to determine the crystallographic orientation of metals at the micrometer scale. This software package provides tools to import, analyze, and visualize the spatially resolved orientation data obtained from EBSD experiments, facilitating microstructural characterization.

Features

• File formats accepted .ang | .osc | .crc | .txt

• can write .ang for FCC. Others could be added

• fast plotting interaction using virtual mask (only used for plotting)

  • increases speed in intermediate test plots

  • can be removed just before final plotting

• verified with the OIM software and mTex

• heavily tested for cubic

• separate crystal orientation and plotting of it

• some educational plotting

• examples and lots of documentation

The following modules exist

• ebsdlab.ebsd.EBSD read/use EBSD data from files, generate random, plotting

• ebsdlab.orientation.Orientation material symmetry + rotation of a material point

• ebsdlab.symmetry.Symmetry material symmetry: cubic, hex, …

• ebsdlab.quaternion.Quaternion mathematical description of rotations

• ebsdlab.rodrigues.Rodrigues rotation description (not used in any other file)

Table of Contents

Contents:

• Installation
• Tutorial EBSD
  • Example: Read EBSD data and plot the ND IPF
  • Example: Interaction with OIM Software to update grain information
  • Example: Create artificial EBSD pattern
  • Example: Average orientation in file
• Verification
  • Compare pythonEBSD with OIM and mTex (TODO)
  • How to run mTex
  • Data that exists and can be used for plotting in plot:
  • Hints for developers
• Example: Compare with OIM software and verify data (TODO)
• API Reference
  • EBSD
  • Orientation
  • Symmetry
  • Quaternion
  • Rodrigues