Plotting Intermediate Results

It is typically not sufficient to look at the plain text output of LIST_RESULT to reliably judge how the optimization is progressing. Plotting a phase or property diagram of the system you are optimizing using the POLY and POST modules is often very useful.

It is recommended that you create a macro file for plotting the diagram since you probably want to repeatedly plot the diagram as you progress with the optimization. This macro file can then be called directly from the PARROT module with the MACRO_FILE_OPEN command.