## ## Example of how to generate cube file for a range of molecular ## orbitals using python and dplot. ## title "Python molecular orbital dplot test" echo start test geometry "system" units angstroms nocenter noautoz noautosym N 0.0 0.0 -0.549 N 0.0 0.0 0.549 end set geometry "system" basis N library 6-31G* end dft xc pbe0 end task dft energy python # plot lowest 10 orbitals, i.e, up to LUMO+2 orbmin = 1 orbmax = 10 orbs = [i for i in range(orbmin, orbmax+1)] # note: +1 since python lists start from 0 for iorb in orbs: fname = "orbital_{0:005d}.cube".format(iorb) # formatting works up to 99999 orbitals str = ''' dplot title "Molecular Orbital {orb}" limitxyz -2.0 2.0 50 -2.0 2.0 50 -4.0 4.0 100 orbitals view; 1; {orb} spin total gaussian output {out} end '''.format(orb=iorb, out=fname) input_parse (str) dplot () end task python