Core concepts

The concepts described in this part apply to all uses of OVITO’s Python API, both in Python scripts and in extensions for OVITO Pro.

Data pipelines

Setting up pipelines, applying modifiers, evaluating results, processing trajectories, and the scene.

Data pipelines

Data model

How OVITO represents particles, bonds, the simulation cell, attributes, tables, and other data.

Data model

Manipulating data

Modifying property values, creating properties, deleting elements, and building datasets from scratch.

Manipulating data