I have about 400 .cif files that I'm trying to turn into .str for use in other programs. The issue is that none of them have Wyckoff positions, making automatic conversion impossible. I'd really rather not have to input them all manually.
which type of .str file? BGMN and TOPAS both take files with the extension .str as their input. BUT the two formats are completely different. I think if you are looking for a universal .cif to .str, it doesn't exist.
It was the BGMN format I was looking for. I've managed to talk a software engineer in my group to just make one. Seems the source code for most of what needs to be done is fairly easy to come by, it's just about stitching it together and making it as bug-free as possible.