WinPLT, ICM-Chemist, ChemPen, JChemPaint, BKChem, ChemicPen, ChemTool, ICEdit, SketchEI, TouchMol, (standalone drawing applications) In this review the most popular publication quality chemical drawing software applications on the MS Windows platform are reviewed and a few others are mentioned briefly:Īccelrys (Biovia) Draw 4.1 Academic edition 1ĪCD/ChemSketch 2015 Free and Commercial 5ĭrawIt - KnowItAll Academic Edition 9.0 3 The information sharing with other programs, database applications must also be many-sided. This means that the user interface of the program, which ensures the interactive two-way communication between the user and the machine, should be simple but effective. Another important point is the user-friendliness of the program. Under the Windows OS most tasks (printing, screen and printer fonts, resolution or any other system wide parameter) are maintained by Windows itself and its set-up is the determining factor. Nowadays an obvious requirement is WYSIWYG ( What You See Is What You Get). The presented drawing software applications work on the Windows or McIntosh platforms, some under Linux as well. If a precise 3D representation of the molecule is needed, its import from a modelling program or 3D data base is the most feasible arrangement, although the recent drawing packages usually contain a simple 2D → 3D converter module or add-in. The availability of different tools (the palette of fonts, arrows, lines and curves, arcs and other shapes or graphics primitives) is also of high importance. Direct 3D editing is usually not possible – 3D features of a molecule can be visualised only by using the wedged/hashed bond drawing methodology. With publication in mind aesthetics and quality come to the front, ensured by built-in templates, bonds constrained to fixed length and angles, etc. The creation of chemical structures with the conventional drawing software applications would be extremely painstaking and practically impossible. With the aid of these applications one can create professional looking articles and drawings, and a large amount of time for the rewriting, redrawing and making corrections can be spared as well. Instead, text editors like MS Word, Corel WordPerfect or Apache OpenOffice, etc. The immense development of microelectronics has banished the use of a typing machine, drawing pen, Indian ink and templates.

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