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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 01:15:49 CDT

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:28 AM, amit kunte <amit7kunte_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
> I have a lammps dump which has variable number of particles in
> each frame and would like to visualize it in vmd(version 1.9.1). when i use
> the following command:
> topo readvarxyz dump.xyz
> I get :
> readvarxyz: read in 0 frames requiring 0 atoms storage.
> Type map:
> Max type counts:
> 8
> The dump file has more then 50000 snapshots. What could be the
> reason for this malfunction?

a badly formatter .xyz file?

> Also is there a way to read lammps dump files
> directly without conversion to '.xyz' format.

via the lammps molfile plugin, of course.

axel.

>
> Thanks in advance
> Best regards
> Amit
>
>
> 

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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.