# Topology Submodule¶

Note

This feature is only present in version 6.3 and newer

The topology submodule allows to create a GFN-FF topology from a geometry input, which can be used to restart a calculation with the GFN-FF without having to perform a costly reevaluation of the force field topology

To start the generation use

xtb topo [--namspace <name>] <geometry>


If you want to use a particular namespace in the calculation later include the namespace flag. Note that even if you want to perform several GFN-FF calculation on different namespaces, generate the topology file without a namespace is recommend, as xtb will first search the local namespace and than fall back to the default file name to finding the generated topology file.

Important

The force field generation step is a cubic scaling step as it requires an all pair shortest path (APSP) algorithm for generating the topological charges and for the diagonalization of the Hückel matrices for the torsion potentials, which can take, depending on the system of interest a significant portion of computation time.

The generated file will be named gfnff_topo or <name>.gfnff_topo and can become quite large.