Although NanoCap was designed to produce fullerenes and cap nanotubes, isolated nanotubes can be constructed. These can be either finite in length or periodic along the axial direction.
A nanotube is constructed via:
File–>New Structure–>Single Structure
them click Nanotube from the popup menu.
Finite tubes are simply constructed as close to the user defined length as possible. This length is defined in the Calculations–>Input options.
Periodic tubes are constructed using a user defined number of unit cells in the z direction. The number of unit cells can also be found in the Calculations–>Input options.
The nanotube will be associated with a periodic length which can be found in the Information options tab. This will be required by simulation software if the nanotube is to be used in a periodic simulation.