Dear Vikas, With a simple script you can extract the coordinates from the stdout and convert it to animated xyz format which VMD (and many other programs) support.
Please find an example I have written for the espresso 3.2 below. Feel free to modify it if it is not working. Best, Baris -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pwo2xyz.tcl Type: application/octet-stream Size: 3343 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20100519/53ebf0f6/attachment-0001.obj -------------- next part -------------- On 19.May.2010, at 21:09, Vikas Varshney wrote: > Dear Developers, > I am a new user of QE and currently going through various examples (along > with tutorials) to understand the software. I have few questions regarding > how I can visualize some results. > > I have VMD installed on my machine but do not have XCrySDen. Is it possible > to input the output files (.out format as outputted from the calculations) > directly somehow to VMD to visualize molecular relaxation (like example03). > Or do I need to install XCrySDen? > > I also tried to visualize the output of example02 (phonon spectra) using > PP/pp.x but was totally unsuccessful. Any help will be highly appreciated > > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > Vikas > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum at pwscf.org > http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum
