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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 14 2005 - 13:33:36 CST

Fred,
  The LAMMPS reader plugin that's included in VMD 1.8.3
only knows how to read LAMMPS trajectories. In order to view
these in VMD you still need to read the structure in somehow.
Thus far, people have been doing this by converting their structures
to PDB files which can be loaded into VMD as well. So you load the
PDB first, then the LAMMPS trajectory, and then you should be able
to view the simulation results in VMD. I hope to write a LAMMPS
structure reader plugin, but haven't had time to start on it yet.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:21:52AM -0500, Frederick R. Phelan Jr. wrote:
> Hi,
> I was able to read a LAMMPS dump file into VMD, and from the message
> it gave I could see that it read in the correct number of atoms and
> the correct number of timesteps. Nevertheless, when I play the results
> nothing appears on the screen.
> From going through back messages I can tell that I need to include
> some additional information in order to display the atoms, but I am
> still not clear as to what that information is. Any help would be
> appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Fred Phelan
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Frederick R. Phelan Jr., Ph.D.
> Processing Characterization Group
> Polymers Division
> National Institute of Standards and Technology
> _________________________________________________________________ 

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