Downloads

The most up-to-date installers for Window, Mac OSX and Linux can be found found at:

Installers

Updates

Occasionally, updates will be issues without supplying new installers. This greatly reduces the size of the downloaded needed. The update packages will contain library files that simply need to be copied over the files that already exist on your system (whever you have installed ShapeX).

Shapemol

Shapemol is a complementary code for SHAPE that computes synthetic line profiles and maps for the molecular line emission of a numerical nebula model. shapemol solves the statistical equilibrium population of a given molecular species using the LVG approximation formalism (see Santander-García, M., Bujarrabal, V., Koning, N., & Steffen, W. 2015, A&A, 573, A56).

For Shapemol to function, you need to download the data tables corresponding to the molecular species you wish to reproduce. The latest version of the Shapemol tables, along with the installation instructions, can be downloaded below. See Masa, E, Alcolea, J., Santander-García, M., Bujarrabal, V., Sánchez Contreras, C., Castro-Carrizo, A., Steffen, W., & Koning, N., 2026, A&A, in press. for details.

Shapemol Tables

M1-92 Example

Notes:

Since the last release, Shape has been revamped almost completely. In particular, the user interface (UI) and the rendering algorithms have seen profound changes.

New modules and modifiers help with the workflow
New manual & website help the user to get started
User forum - ask questions, share tips & tricks, propose features
Installers for Windows, MacOSX, Linux RPM & Debian

IMPORTANT NOTE: Remember that to take full advantage of your computers RAM, you need to manually set it in the ShapeX.cfg file. Search for this file within the installation directory. Open it with Administrator privileges and add the minimum and maximum RAM that you will allow Shape to use, say e.g. 14 GB of your actual RAM of 16 GB. Edit the .cfg file in a text editor with the following lines:

[JVMOptions]
-Xms1000m
-Xmx14000m

Make sure that there are no spaces before or behind the lines with the numbers. Save the file and run Shape. At the bottom of the UI the "Total (Mb): " should now indicate approximately 1.4E4 .

Downloads

Shapemol

Notes:

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Since the last release, Shape has been revamped almost completely. In particular, the user interface (UI) and the rendering algorithms have seen profound changes.

New modules and modifiers help with the workflow

New manual & website help the user to get started

User forum - ask questions, share tips & tricks, propose features

Installers for Windows, MacOSX, Linux RPM & Debian

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Make sure that there are no spaces before or behind the lines with the numbers. Save the file and run Shape. At the bottom of the UI the "Total (Mb): " should now indicate approximately 1.4E4 .