[CP2K-user] [CP2K:12026] Visualizing molden format normal modes without Molden

[Michael Banck]

Hi Alejandro,

On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:28:22AM -0700, Alejandro Ramos wrote:
> I'm performing vibrational analysis of some molecule in CP2K. The output of 
> the normal modes is in molden format, but I don't want to use Molden for 
> visualizing it because I think it offers very few visualization options and 
> it doesn't look nice to me. Not Avogadro, Chemcraft, VMD, PyMol or any 
> other popular visualization program can open this kind of files. Does 
> someone have an idea of what can I use besides Molden to visualize the 
> normal modes output of CP2K? Maybe there is some kind of plugin or script 
> for the programs mentioned earlier?

I thought quite a few programs could open Molden format but maybe you
are right.

Are you using Avogadro-2? Avogadro-1 uses OpenBabel as backend and I am
pretty sure that supports Molden, the Avogadro-2 rewrite dropped
OpenBabel and they might not have reimplemented Molden support.


Michael