OVITO User Manual

Alexander Stukowski

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Installation
Usage
Importing data
Viewports
Particle properties
Modification pipeline
Rendering images and movies
Miscellaneous
Exporting data
Python scripting
Animation system
How-to guides
Make particles semi-transparent
Use marker atoms to visualize internal motion
Add a scale bar to a viewport
Visualize particles with non-spherical shapes
Show trajectories of particles
Reference
Modifiers
Affine transformation
Ambient occlusion
Assign color
Atomic strain
Bin and reduce
Bond-angle analysis
Centrosymmetry parameter
Clear selection
Cluster analysis
Color coding
Common neighbor analysis
Compute property
Construct surface mesh
Coordination analysis
Create bonds
Delete selected particles
Dislocation analysis (DXA)
Displacement vectors
Elastic strain calculation
Expand selection
Expression select
Freeze property
Histogram
Identify diamond structure
Invert selection
Manual selection
Python script modifier
Scatter plot
Select particle type
Show periodic images
Slice
Voronoi analysis
Wigner-Seitz defect analysis
Wrap at periodic boundaries
External file source
Display objects
Bonds display
Particle display
Surface mesh display
Vector display
Viewports
Adjust view dialog
Viewport overlays
Animation settings dialog
Renderering
Render settings
OpenGL renderer
Tachyon renderer
Developer information
Building OVITO on Linux
Building OVITO on Windows
Building OVITO on Mac OS X
Credits and license
A. GNU General Public License version 3
B. GNU Free Documentation License
C. Tachyon license
D. muParser license
E. netCDF license