OVITO Python Reference

This manual describes the Python programming interface of the OVITO Pro desktop application and the standalone ovito Python package. This programming interface lets you integrate OVITO’s computing and rendering capabilities in external Python programs or extend the OVITO Pro desktop application with new user-defined data processing and visualization function.

You can access this manual from the Help menu of OVITO Basic and OVITO Pro or online by going to https://docs.ovito.org/python/.

Topics

• Introduction
• Installation
• High-level API overview
• File I/O
• Data pipelines
• Data model
• Manipulating data
• User-defined modifiers
• User-defined file readers
• User-defined file writers
• User-defined viewport layers
• User-defined utility applets
• Rendering & visualization
• Advanced topics
• Code examples

Python Module Reference

• ovito
• ovito.data
• ovito.gui
• ovito.io
• ovito.io.ase
• ovito.io.lammps
• ovito.io.pymatgen
• ovito.modifiers
• ovito.pipeline
• ovito.traits
• ovito.vis