Installation
- download and extract the zip file to an arbitrary folder
- start Matlab (version 2016b or newer required - older versions have not been tested)
- change the current folder in Matlab to the folder where MTEX is installed
- type
startup_mtexinto the command window - click one of the menu items to import data or to consult the documentation
In case you experience any problems, especiall on Mac OSX, have a look at our trouble shooting page
All Releases
Have a look at the changelog for more details on the features and syntax changes.
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| mtex-6.1.beta3.zip | March 2025 |  |
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| mtex-6.0.0.zip | November 2024 | 3d Grains |  |
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| mtex-5.11.2.zip | April 2024 | better grain reconstruction |  |
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| mtex-5.11.1.zip | March 2024 | better grain reconstruction |  |
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| mtex-6.0.beta3.zip | March 2024 | pseudo 3d EBSD |  |
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| mtex-6.0.beta2.zip | September 2023 | pseudo 3d EBSD |  |
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| mtex-5.10.2.zip | September 2023 | bug fixes |  |
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| mtex-5.10.0.zip | May 2023 | weighted Burgers vector |  |
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| mtex-5.9.0.zip | March 2023 | habit plane detection, SO3Fun |  |
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| mtex-5.8.2.zip | November 2022 | bug fixes |  |
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| mtex-5.8.1.zip | March 2022 | bug fixes |  |
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| mtex-5.8.0.zip | January 2022 | variant graph based parent grain reconstruction | 2006 | ||||||
| mtex-5.7.0.zip | May 2021 | improved parent grain reconstruction | 7086 | ||||||
| mtex-5.6.1.zip | March 2021 | bug fixes | 1797 | ||||||
| mtex-5.6.0.zip | January 2021 | simplified parent grain reconstruction | 2625 | ||||||
| mtex-5.5.2.zip | December 2020 | low angle grain boundary analysis, orientation embeddings | 807 | ||||||
| mtex-5.4.0.zip | July 2020 | parent grain reconstruction | 3738 | ||||||
| mtex-5.3.1.zip | June 2020 | bug fixes, boundary curvature | 1051 | ||||||
| mtex-5.3.zip | April 2020 | performance updates | 2550 | ||||||
| mtex-5.2.8.zip | January 2020 | plasticity tensors | 3447 | ||||||
| mtex-5.1.1.zip | June 2018 | GND calculation and birefringence | 9235 | ||||||
| mtex-5.0.3.zip | March 2018 | Crystal Shapes and spherical functions | 3049 | ||||||
| mtex-4.5.2.zip | November 2017 | 3d orientation and ODF plots | 4498 | ||||||
| mtex-4.4.0.zip | January 2017 | Slip Systems, Taylor calculation | 1376 | ||||||
| mtex-4.3.2.zip | July 2016 | GND calculation | 2284 | ||||||
| mtex-4.2.1.zip | November 2015 | triple points | 2177 | ||||||
| mtex-4.1.4.zip | September 2015 | EBSD denoising, fundamental regions | 1629 | ||||||
| mtex-4.0.23.zip | April 2015 | new class system and new syntax | 1630 | ||||||
| mtex-3.5.0.zip | December 2013 | misorientation coloring, fast multiscale grain reconstruction | 2398 | ||||||
| mtex-3.4.2.zip | June 2013 | minor release | 1660 |
A full list of previous releases and downloads can be found here.
Compatibility
Since MTEX is a MATLAB toolbox, MATLAB has to be installed in order to use MTEX. It works fine with the student version and does not require any additional toolboxes, addons or packages. There are some very few exceptions like GND and Taylor computation that currently require the optimization toolbox to be installed. Please use a Matlab version as recent as possible for MTEX. We try hard to make MTEX as backward compatible as possible. However, you can not expect a MTEX version to run on a 10 years older Matlab version.