obdistgen - Man Page

generate rough 3D coordinates for SMILES (or other 0D files)

Synopsis

obdistgenfilename

Description

Generates SDFs with distance geometry.

Environment

OB_RANDOM_SEED

Seed for pseudo random number generator; random seed is used if unset or null. This feature is effective if Open Babel is built with -DOB_USE_OBRANDOMMT cpreprocessor flag (will be automatically enabled when version 4 is released).

Examples

obdistgen molecule.smi > molecule.sdf

Generate rough 3D coordinates for molecule.smi and write it to molecule.sdf

See Also

obgen(1).

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Authors

Open Babel is developed by a cast of many, including current maintainers Geoff Hutchison, Chris Morley, Michael Banck, and innumerable others who have contributed fixes and additions. For more contributors to Open Babel, see <https://openbabel.org/docs/Introduction/thanks.html>

Info

May 26, 2026