lpp page in Github does not exist.

Submitted by tianxiong_Zhao on Mon, 08/14/2023 - 14:29

It seems that the Lpp in CFDEM project in Github does not exist anymore, which causes the installation of it through Github does not work.

Daniel Queteschiner | Thu, 08/24/2023 - 16:12

How exactly does this interfere with installation? LPP is just a post-processing tool ...
Anyway, instead of the (now vanished) CFDEMproject version you may use a fork such as our version at
https://github.com/ParticulateFlow/LPP
with a recently added python 3 compatible version at
https://github.com/ParticulateFlow/LPP/tree/python3

Another possibility is to directly write VTK files from LIGGGHTS using dump custom/vtk (requires compiling against the VTK library) instead of dump custom

Open DEM Japan | Mon, 11/03/2025 - 07:13

There have been many reports that LPP no longer works reliably on modern environments.
LPP was developed for Python 2 and is based on the older Pizza.py toolkit; as a result, it often runs into compatibility issues and bugs on systems where Python 3 is the default (e.g., Ubuntu 20.04+).
If your goal is converting LIGGGHTS dump files to VTK, I have developed a new program in Python 3:

Highlights

  • Includes an easy-to-use GUI; can also be used as a CLI for batch workflows.
  • Converts not only particle data to VTK, but also force chains.
  • Supports force-chain analysis using the Louvain method for community detection.

Please give it a try and feel free to share feedback or report issues on GitHub.