OVITO can export data to the following file formats:
Format name | Description | Data type(s) |
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LAMMPS dump | Text-based file format produced and read by the LAMMPS molecular dynamics code. | particles |
LAMMPS data | File format read by the LAMMPS molecular dynamics code. | particles, bonds, angles, dihedrals, impropers |
XYZ | A simple column-based text format, which is documented here and here. | particles |
POSCAR | File format used by the ab initio simulation package VASP. | particles |
IMD | File format used by the molecular dynamics code IMD. | particles |
FHI-aims | File format used by the ab initio simulation package FHI-aims. | particles |
NetCDF | Binary format for molecular dynamics data following the AMBER format convention. | particles |
GSD/HOOMD | Binary format for molecular dynamics data used by the HOOMD-blue code. See GSD (General Simulation Data) format. | particles, bonds, global attributes |
Table of values | A simple tabular text file with scalar quantities computed by OVITO's data pipeline. | global attributes |
VTK | Generic text-based data format used by the ParaView software. | surface meshes, voxel grids, dislocations |
POV-Ray scene | Exports the entire scene to a file that can be rendered with POV-Ray. | any |
Crystal Analysis (.ca) | Format that can store dislocation lines extracted from an atomistic crystal model by the Dislocation Analysis modifier. The format is documented here. | dislocations, surface meshes |