Visualizing molden format normal modes without Molden

[Alejandro Ramos]

Dear all,

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?

Thanks in advance,

Alejandro.

[Michael Banck]

Hi Alejandro,

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

[el805mexicano]

Dear Alejandro Ramos,
I recently used CP2K for the same task (vibrational analysis). To visualize the modes use Jmol, it is free and very easy to install.
Best,
Jorge

[Stephen Vicchio]

All, 

I hope all is well! Is there any other software besides Jmol to visualize? I've tried to use ASE, but it's not supported. 

Stephen