About McStas
Conditions of use
Authors/Contacts
Project funding
Download
Components
Other Downloads (share)
Documentation
Wiki (GitHub)
McStas manual
Publications
Overview of web resources for McStas
Get the code, report bugs etc.
- McStas website
- McStas mailinglist subscription (Please enrol!)
- McStas Facebook page (Please follow us!)
- McStas downloads
- McStas+McXtrace GitHub
- McStas+McXtrace issues + bug reporting
Tutorials, howto's, docs
- How McStas works - in 2 minutes
- Tutorial: Build a SANS
- Tutorial: Build a diffractometer (outdated in certain parts)
- McStas manual and component manual Better use mcdoc or the Docs button of your mcgui
- McStas sample model functionality matrix (not always fully up to date)
- McStas and McXtrace GitHub wiki - tutorials, guides and more
McStasScript and Union documentation resources
- McStasScript docs (also includes a Union tutorial)
- Legacy union manual
- Mads Bertelsen PhD Thesis (2017) is a good resource for the Union framework
Neutron scattering + McStas e-learning
- e-learning.pan-training.eu
website (free enrolment)
(formerly known under other names like VNT, e-neutrons, pan-learning etc.)
ESS specific McStas docs
(*-marked ones can only be browsed from
an ESS network address, sorry :-) )
- McStas space on ESS confluence (*)
- Running McStas on the ESS DMSC cluster (*) - plus general DMSC cluster info (*)
- MCPL input to describe the ESS source (*)
- 'Benchmarking' website for the ESS_butterfly component
Material from schools
- School-material 2018 and later on GitHub
- Older schools are found elsewhere:
- Dropbox with materials from the 5-day MDANSE2018 workshop event in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
- Material from ESS DMSC McStas workshop June 2018
- Website and materials from a 3-day STFC event (including public Dropbox link to presentations etc.)
- Website and materials from a 3-day ESS event (including public Dropbox link to presentations etc.)
- Website and materials from a 2-day NOBUGS event (including public Dropbox link to presentations etc.)
- Dropbox with materials from a 5-day event in Bariloche, Argentina
(Also available: Older list of links for McStas users) Last modified: Mon Aug 3 08:28:52 CEST 2026