diff --git a/processing/pre/geom_fromAng.py b/processing/pre/geom_fromAng.py
index e69de29bb..0261f94f1 100755
--- a/processing/pre/geom_fromAng.py
+++ b/processing/pre/geom_fromAng.py
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: UTF-8 no BOM -*-
+
+import os,sys,math,string
+import numpy as np
+from optparse import OptionParser
+import damask
+
+scriptID   = string.replace('$Id$','\n','\\n')
+scriptName = os.path.splitext(scriptID.split()[1])[0]
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#                                MAIN
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+parser = OptionParser(option_class=damask.extendableOption, usage='%prog options [file[s]]', description = """
+Generate geometry description and material configuration from input files used by R.A. Lebensohn.
+
+""", version = scriptID)
+
+parser.add_option('--column',          dest='column', type='int', metavar = 'int',
+                  help='data column to discriminate between both phases [%default]')
+parser.add_option('-t','--threshold',      dest='threshold', type='float', metavar = 'float',
+                  help='threshold value for phase discrimination [%default]')
+parser.add_option('--homogenization', dest='homogenization', type='int', metavar = 'int',
+                  help='homogenization index for <microstructure> configuration [%default]')
+parser.add_option('--phase', dest='phase', type='int', nargs = 2, metavar = 'int int',
+                  help='phase indices for <microstructure> configuration %default')
+parser.add_option('--crystallite', dest='crystallite', type='int', metavar = 'int',
+                  help='crystallite index for <microstructure> configuration [%default]')
+parser.add_option('-c', '--configuration', dest='config', action='store_true',
+                  help='output material configuration [%default]')
+parser.add_option('--compress',            dest='compress', action='store_true',
+                  help='lump identical microstructure and texture information [%default]')
+parser.add_option('-p', '--precision',    dest='precision', choices=['0','1','2','3'], metavar = 'int',
+                  help = 'euler angles decimal places for output format and compressing (0,1,2,3) [2]')
+
+parser.set_defaults(column         = 7)
+parser.set_defaults(threshold      = 1.0)
+parser.set_defaults(homogenization = 1)
+parser.set_defaults(phase          = [1,2])
+parser.set_defaults(crystallite    = 1)
+parser.set_defaults(config         = False)
+parser.set_defaults(compress       = False)
+parser.set_defaults(precision      = '2')
+
+(options,filenames) = parser.parse_args()
+
+#--- setup file handles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+files = []
+if filenames == []:
+  files.append({'name':'STDIN',
+                'input':sys.stdin,
+                'output':sys.stdout,
+                'croak':sys.stderr,
+               })
+else:
+  for name in filenames:
+    if os.path.exists(name):
+      files.append({'name':name,
+                    'input':open(name),
+                    'output':open(name+'_tmp','w'),
+                    'croak':sys.stdout,
+                    })
+
+
+#--- loop over input files ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+for file in files:
+  file['croak'].write('\033[1m' + scriptName + '\033[0m: ' + (file['name'] if file['name'] != 'STDIN' else '') + '\n')
+
+  info = {
+          'grid':   np.zeros(3,'i'),
+          'size':   np.zeros(3,'d'),
+          'origin': np.zeros(3,'d'),
+          'microstructures': 0,
+          'homogenization':  options.homogenization
+         }
+         
+  coords = [{},{},{}]
+  pos = {'min':[ float("inf"), float("inf"), float("inf")],
+         'max':[-float("inf"),-float("inf"),-float("inf")]}
+
+  phase =       []
+  eulerangles = []
+# --------------- read data -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+  for line in file['input']:
+    if line.strip():
+      words = line.split()
+      currPos = words[3:6]
+      for i in xrange(3):
+        coords[i][currPos[i]] = True
+      currPos = map(float,currPos)
+      for i in xrange(3):
+        pos['min'][i] = min(pos['min'][i],currPos[i])
+        pos['max'][i] = max(pos['max'][i],currPos[i])
+      eulerangles.append(map(math.degrees,map(float,words[:3])))
+      phase.append(options.phase[int(float(words[options.column-1]) > options.threshold)])
+      
+# --------------- determine size and grid ---------------------------------------------------------
+  info['grid'] = np.array(map(len,coords),'i')
+  info['size'] = info['grid']/np.maximum(np.ones(3,'d'),info['grid']-1.0)* \
+                       np.array([pos['max'][0]-pos['min'][0],
+                                 pos['max'][1]-pos['min'][1],
+                                 pos['max'][2]-pos['min'][2]],'d')
+  eulerangles = np.array(eulerangles,dtype='f').reshape(info['grid'].prod(),3)
+  phase       = np.array(phase,dtype='i').reshape(info['grid'].prod())
+
+  limits = [360,180,360]
+  if any([np.any(eulerangles[:,i]>=limits[i]) for i in [0,1,2]]):
+    file['croak'].write('Error: euler angles out of bound. Ang file might contain unidexed poins.\n')
+    for i,angle in enumerate(['phi1','PHI','phi2']):
+      for n in np.nditer(np.where(eulerangles[:,i]>=limits[i]),['zerosize_ok']):
+        file['croak'].write('%s in line %i (%4.2f %4.2f %4.2f)\n'
+                                     %(angle,n,eulerangles[n,0],eulerangles[n,1],eulerangles[n,2]))
+    continue
+  eulerangles=np.around(eulerangles,int(options.precision))                                         # round to desired precision
+  for i,angle in enumerate(['phi1','PHI','phi2']):
+    eulerangles[:,i]%=limits[i]                                                                     # ensure, that rounded euler angles are not out of bounds (modulo by limits)
+
+  if options.compress:
+    formatString='{0:0>'+str(int(options.precision)+3)+'}'
+    euleranglesRadInt = (eulerangles*10**int(options.precision)).astype('int')                      # scale by desired precision and convert to int
+    eulerKeys = np.array([int(''.join(map(formatString.format,euleranglesRadInt[i,:]))) \
+                                                             for i in xrange(info['grid'].prod())]) # create unique integer key from three euler angles by concatenating the string representation with leading zeros and store as integer
+    devNull, texture, eulerKeys_idx = np.unique(eulerKeys, return_index = True, return_inverse=True)# search unique euler angle keys. Texture IDs are the indices of the first occurence, the inverse is used to construct the microstructure
+    msFull = np.array([[eulerKeys_idx[i],phase[i]] for i in xrange(info['grid'].prod())],'i8')      # create a microstructure (texture/phase pair) for each point using unique texture IDs. Use longInt (64bit, i8) because the keys might be long
+    devNull,msUnique,matPoints = np.unique(msFull.view('c16'),True,True)
+    matPoints+=1
+    microstructure = np.array([msFull[i] for i in msUnique])                                        # pick only unique microstructures
+  else:
+    texture = np.arange(info['grid'].prod())
+    microstructure = np.hstack( zip(texture,phase) ).reshape(info['grid'].prod(),2)                 # create texture/phase pairs
+  formatOut = 1+int(math.log10(len(texture)))
+  textureOut =['\n\n<texture>']
+
+  eulerFormatOut='%%%i.%if'%(int(options.precision)+4,int(options.precision))
+  outStringAngles='(gauss) phi1 '+eulerFormatOut+' Phi '+eulerFormatOut+' phi2 '+eulerFormatOut+' scatter 0.0 fraction 1.0\n'
+  for i in xrange(len(texture)):
+    textureOut +=       ['[Texture%s]\n'%str(i+1).zfill(formatOut) +
+                          outStringAngles%tuple(eulerangles[texture[i],...])
+                         ]
+  formatOut = 1+int(math.log10(len(microstructure)))
+  microstructureOut =['<microstructure>']
+  for i in xrange(len(microstructure)):
+    microstructureOut += ['[Grain%s]\n'%str(i+1).zfill(formatOut) +
+                         'crystallite\t%i\n'%options.crystallite +
+                         '(constituent)\tphase %i\ttexture %i\tfraction 1.0\n'%(microstructure[i,1],microstructure[i,0]+1)
+                         ]
+
+  info['microstructures'] = len(microstructure)
+
+#--- report ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  file['croak'].write('grid     a b c:  %s\n'%(' x '.join(map(str,info['grid']))) +
+                      'size     x y z:  %s\n'%(' x '.join(map(str,info['size']))) +
+                      'origin   x y z:  %s\n'%(' : '.join(map(str,info['origin']))) +
+                      'homogenization:  %i\n'%info['homogenization'] +
+                      'microstructures: %i\n\n'%info['microstructures'])
+
+  if np.any(info['grid'] < 1):
+    file['croak'].write('invalid grid a b c.\n')
+    continue
+  if np.any(info['size'] <= 0.0):
+    file['croak'].write('invalid size x y z.\n')
+    continue
+
+
+#--- write data -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  if options.config:
+    file['output'].write('\n'.join(microstructureOut+ textureOut) + '\n')
+  else:
+    header = [' '.join([scriptID] + sys.argv[1:]),
+              "grid\ta %i\tb %i\tc %i"%(info['grid'][0],info['grid'][1],info['grid'][2],),
+              "size\tx %f\ty %f\tz %f"%(info['size'][0],info['size'][1],info['size'][2],),
+              "origin\tx %f\ty %f\tz %f"%(info['origin'][0],info['origin'][1],info['origin'][2],),
+              "microstructures\t%i"%info['microstructures'],
+              "homogenization\t%i"%info['homogenization'],
+              ]
+    file['output'].write('\n'.join(['%i\theader'%(len(header))] + header) + '\n')
+    if options.compress:
+      matPoints = matPoints.reshape([info['grid'][1]*info['grid'][2],info['grid'][0]])
+      np.savetxt(file['output'],matPoints,fmt='%0'+str(1+int(math.log10(np.amax(matPoints))))+'d')
+    else:
+      file['output'].write("1 to %i\n"%(info['microstructures']))
+  
+#--- output finalization -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
+  if file['name'] != 'STDIN':
+    file['output'].close()
+    os.rename(file['name']+'_tmp',
+              os.path.splitext(file['name'])[0] +'%s'%('_material.config' if options.config else '.geom'))
+
diff --git a/processing/pre/geom_fromVPSC.py b/processing/pre/geom_fromVPSC.py
index e69de29bb..0261f94f1 100755
--- a/processing/pre/geom_fromVPSC.py
+++ b/processing/pre/geom_fromVPSC.py
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: UTF-8 no BOM -*-
+
+import os,sys,math,string
+import numpy as np
+from optparse import OptionParser
+import damask
+
+scriptID   = string.replace('$Id$','\n','\\n')
+scriptName = os.path.splitext(scriptID.split()[1])[0]
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#                                MAIN
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+parser = OptionParser(option_class=damask.extendableOption, usage='%prog options [file[s]]', description = """
+Generate geometry description and material configuration from input files used by R.A. Lebensohn.
+
+""", version = scriptID)
+
+parser.add_option('--column',          dest='column', type='int', metavar = 'int',
+                  help='data column to discriminate between both phases [%default]')
+parser.add_option('-t','--threshold',      dest='threshold', type='float', metavar = 'float',
+                  help='threshold value for phase discrimination [%default]')
+parser.add_option('--homogenization', dest='homogenization', type='int', metavar = 'int',
+                  help='homogenization index for <microstructure> configuration [%default]')
+parser.add_option('--phase', dest='phase', type='int', nargs = 2, metavar = 'int int',
+                  help='phase indices for <microstructure> configuration %default')
+parser.add_option('--crystallite', dest='crystallite', type='int', metavar = 'int',
+                  help='crystallite index for <microstructure> configuration [%default]')
+parser.add_option('-c', '--configuration', dest='config', action='store_true',
+                  help='output material configuration [%default]')
+parser.add_option('--compress',            dest='compress', action='store_true',
+                  help='lump identical microstructure and texture information [%default]')
+parser.add_option('-p', '--precision',    dest='precision', choices=['0','1','2','3'], metavar = 'int',
+                  help = 'euler angles decimal places for output format and compressing (0,1,2,3) [2]')
+
+parser.set_defaults(column         = 7)
+parser.set_defaults(threshold      = 1.0)
+parser.set_defaults(homogenization = 1)
+parser.set_defaults(phase          = [1,2])
+parser.set_defaults(crystallite    = 1)
+parser.set_defaults(config         = False)
+parser.set_defaults(compress       = False)
+parser.set_defaults(precision      = '2')
+
+(options,filenames) = parser.parse_args()
+
+#--- setup file handles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+files = []
+if filenames == []:
+  files.append({'name':'STDIN',
+                'input':sys.stdin,
+                'output':sys.stdout,
+                'croak':sys.stderr,
+               })
+else:
+  for name in filenames:
+    if os.path.exists(name):
+      files.append({'name':name,
+                    'input':open(name),
+                    'output':open(name+'_tmp','w'),
+                    'croak':sys.stdout,
+                    })
+
+
+#--- loop over input files ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+for file in files:
+  file['croak'].write('\033[1m' + scriptName + '\033[0m: ' + (file['name'] if file['name'] != 'STDIN' else '') + '\n')
+
+  info = {
+          'grid':   np.zeros(3,'i'),
+          'size':   np.zeros(3,'d'),
+          'origin': np.zeros(3,'d'),
+          'microstructures': 0,
+          'homogenization':  options.homogenization
+         }
+         
+  coords = [{},{},{}]
+  pos = {'min':[ float("inf"), float("inf"), float("inf")],
+         'max':[-float("inf"),-float("inf"),-float("inf")]}
+
+  phase =       []
+  eulerangles = []
+# --------------- read data -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+  for line in file['input']:
+    if line.strip():
+      words = line.split()
+      currPos = words[3:6]
+      for i in xrange(3):
+        coords[i][currPos[i]] = True
+      currPos = map(float,currPos)
+      for i in xrange(3):
+        pos['min'][i] = min(pos['min'][i],currPos[i])
+        pos['max'][i] = max(pos['max'][i],currPos[i])
+      eulerangles.append(map(math.degrees,map(float,words[:3])))
+      phase.append(options.phase[int(float(words[options.column-1]) > options.threshold)])
+      
+# --------------- determine size and grid ---------------------------------------------------------
+  info['grid'] = np.array(map(len,coords),'i')
+  info['size'] = info['grid']/np.maximum(np.ones(3,'d'),info['grid']-1.0)* \
+                       np.array([pos['max'][0]-pos['min'][0],
+                                 pos['max'][1]-pos['min'][1],
+                                 pos['max'][2]-pos['min'][2]],'d')
+  eulerangles = np.array(eulerangles,dtype='f').reshape(info['grid'].prod(),3)
+  phase       = np.array(phase,dtype='i').reshape(info['grid'].prod())
+
+  limits = [360,180,360]
+  if any([np.any(eulerangles[:,i]>=limits[i]) for i in [0,1,2]]):
+    file['croak'].write('Error: euler angles out of bound. Ang file might contain unidexed poins.\n')
+    for i,angle in enumerate(['phi1','PHI','phi2']):
+      for n in np.nditer(np.where(eulerangles[:,i]>=limits[i]),['zerosize_ok']):
+        file['croak'].write('%s in line %i (%4.2f %4.2f %4.2f)\n'
+                                     %(angle,n,eulerangles[n,0],eulerangles[n,1],eulerangles[n,2]))
+    continue
+  eulerangles=np.around(eulerangles,int(options.precision))                                         # round to desired precision
+  for i,angle in enumerate(['phi1','PHI','phi2']):
+    eulerangles[:,i]%=limits[i]                                                                     # ensure, that rounded euler angles are not out of bounds (modulo by limits)
+
+  if options.compress:
+    formatString='{0:0>'+str(int(options.precision)+3)+'}'
+    euleranglesRadInt = (eulerangles*10**int(options.precision)).astype('int')                      # scale by desired precision and convert to int
+    eulerKeys = np.array([int(''.join(map(formatString.format,euleranglesRadInt[i,:]))) \
+                                                             for i in xrange(info['grid'].prod())]) # create unique integer key from three euler angles by concatenating the string representation with leading zeros and store as integer
+    devNull, texture, eulerKeys_idx = np.unique(eulerKeys, return_index = True, return_inverse=True)# search unique euler angle keys. Texture IDs are the indices of the first occurence, the inverse is used to construct the microstructure
+    msFull = np.array([[eulerKeys_idx[i],phase[i]] for i in xrange(info['grid'].prod())],'i8')      # create a microstructure (texture/phase pair) for each point using unique texture IDs. Use longInt (64bit, i8) because the keys might be long
+    devNull,msUnique,matPoints = np.unique(msFull.view('c16'),True,True)
+    matPoints+=1
+    microstructure = np.array([msFull[i] for i in msUnique])                                        # pick only unique microstructures
+  else:
+    texture = np.arange(info['grid'].prod())
+    microstructure = np.hstack( zip(texture,phase) ).reshape(info['grid'].prod(),2)                 # create texture/phase pairs
+  formatOut = 1+int(math.log10(len(texture)))
+  textureOut =['\n\n<texture>']
+
+  eulerFormatOut='%%%i.%if'%(int(options.precision)+4,int(options.precision))
+  outStringAngles='(gauss) phi1 '+eulerFormatOut+' Phi '+eulerFormatOut+' phi2 '+eulerFormatOut+' scatter 0.0 fraction 1.0\n'
+  for i in xrange(len(texture)):
+    textureOut +=       ['[Texture%s]\n'%str(i+1).zfill(formatOut) +
+                          outStringAngles%tuple(eulerangles[texture[i],...])
+                         ]
+  formatOut = 1+int(math.log10(len(microstructure)))
+  microstructureOut =['<microstructure>']
+  for i in xrange(len(microstructure)):
+    microstructureOut += ['[Grain%s]\n'%str(i+1).zfill(formatOut) +
+                         'crystallite\t%i\n'%options.crystallite +
+                         '(constituent)\tphase %i\ttexture %i\tfraction 1.0\n'%(microstructure[i,1],microstructure[i,0]+1)
+                         ]
+
+  info['microstructures'] = len(microstructure)
+
+#--- report ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  file['croak'].write('grid     a b c:  %s\n'%(' x '.join(map(str,info['grid']))) +
+                      'size     x y z:  %s\n'%(' x '.join(map(str,info['size']))) +
+                      'origin   x y z:  %s\n'%(' : '.join(map(str,info['origin']))) +
+                      'homogenization:  %i\n'%info['homogenization'] +
+                      'microstructures: %i\n\n'%info['microstructures'])
+
+  if np.any(info['grid'] < 1):
+    file['croak'].write('invalid grid a b c.\n')
+    continue
+  if np.any(info['size'] <= 0.0):
+    file['croak'].write('invalid size x y z.\n')
+    continue
+
+
+#--- write data -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  if options.config:
+    file['output'].write('\n'.join(microstructureOut+ textureOut) + '\n')
+  else:
+    header = [' '.join([scriptID] + sys.argv[1:]),
+              "grid\ta %i\tb %i\tc %i"%(info['grid'][0],info['grid'][1],info['grid'][2],),
+              "size\tx %f\ty %f\tz %f"%(info['size'][0],info['size'][1],info['size'][2],),
+              "origin\tx %f\ty %f\tz %f"%(info['origin'][0],info['origin'][1],info['origin'][2],),
+              "microstructures\t%i"%info['microstructures'],
+              "homogenization\t%i"%info['homogenization'],
+              ]
+    file['output'].write('\n'.join(['%i\theader'%(len(header))] + header) + '\n')
+    if options.compress:
+      matPoints = matPoints.reshape([info['grid'][1]*info['grid'][2],info['grid'][0]])
+      np.savetxt(file['output'],matPoints,fmt='%0'+str(1+int(math.log10(np.amax(matPoints))))+'d')
+    else:
+      file['output'].write("1 to %i\n"%(info['microstructures']))
+  
+#--- output finalization -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
+  if file['name'] != 'STDIN':
+    file['output'].close()
+    os.rename(file['name']+'_tmp',
+              os.path.splitext(file['name'])[0] +'%s'%('_material.config' if options.config else '.geom'))
+
diff --git a/processing/pre/geom_fromVoronoiTessellation.py b/processing/pre/geom_fromVoronoiTessellation.py
index a598e4e6d..5a02e4940 100755
--- a/processing/pre/geom_fromVoronoiTessellation.py
+++ b/processing/pre/geom_fromVoronoiTessellation.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ parser.set_defaults(grid   = None,
                     position       = 'pos',
                     weight         = 'weight',
                     microstructure = 'microstructure',
-                    eulers         = 'Euler',
+                    eulers         = 'eulerangles',
                     homogenization = 1,
                     crystallite    = 1,
                     phase          = 1,