Output file formats

OVITO can export data to the following file formats:

Format name	Description	Data type(s)
LAMMPS data	File format read by the LAMMPS molecular dynamics code.	particles, bonds, angles, dihedrals, impropers
LAMMPS dump	Trajectory format used by the LAMMPS molecular dynamics code.	particles
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 molecular dynamics format 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 (DXA) modifier. The format is documented here.	dislocations, surface meshes