Did you adjust the unit cell dimensions to match your desired periodicity?
If not, you won't get a meaningful structure out.

See Geoff's suggestion about importing the crystal. That method should have
the unit cell preconfigured to what you're looking for.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Rajan Kumar <kumarrajan...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to build graphene using Avogadro. I tried the following steps:
>
> 1. Draw six carbon with alternate single and double bonds.
> 2. Optimize geometry.
> 3. Add unit cell
> 4. Build super cell
>
> As a final structure, I got carbon molecules randomly connected to each
> other.
> Please help me where I am wrong.
>
>
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> Thanks
> Rajan Kumar
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