# Output file formats

OVITO can export data to the following file formats:

Format name | Description | Exported data types
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LAMMPS data | File format read by the LAMMPS molecular dynamics code. | particles, bonds, angles, dihedrals, impropers
LAMMPS dump | Trajectory format used by the LAMMPS molecular dynamics code. | particles
XYZ | A simple column-based text format, which is documented here and here. | particles
POSCAR | File format used by the ab initio simulation package VASP. | particles
IMD | File format used by the molecular dynamics code IMD. | particles
FHI-aims | File format used by the ab initio simulation package FHI-aims. | particles
NetCDF | Binary format for molecular dynamics data following the AMBER format convention. | particles
GSD/HOOMD | Binary molecular dynamics format used by the HOOMD-blue code. See GSD (General Simulation Data) format. | particles, bonds, angles, dihedrals, impropers, global attributes
Table of values | A simple tabular text file with scalar quantities computed by OVITO’s data pipeline. | global attributes
VTK | Generic text-based data format used by the ParaView software. | surface meshes, voxel grids, dislocations
POV-Ray scene | Exports the entire scene to a file that can be rendered with POV-Ray. | any
Crystal Analysis (.ca) | Format that can store dislocation lines extracted from an atomistic crystal model by the Dislocation analysis (DXA) modifier. The format is documented here. | dislocations, surface meshes