Hi everyone. I'm very beginner in Materials Studio or any MD silmulation.

I have a question. I need to know distance between side chains of my bottle brush polymer model(It contains about 60,000 atoms). At certain density 1.03g/ml.

•  Is it necessary to run the amorphous cell calculation before calculating any distance between side chains by Forcite module? 'Just optimizing geometry and NVT -> NPT' is possible way to get appropriate information?

Any helps appriciated.