Chem Sketch Software.

Introduction:

       Chem Sketch is an alternative tool for scientist, teachers and student to computerize their chemistry's diagrams. Drawing chemical bonds and atoms is the basic activity in ACD/ChemSketch. For that reason, be sure to be in the structure mode.

The Draw Normal tool is the default tool when the program is started.

eg:

the draw tool,

the cabon element too. we can also find many other elements tool such as N, H, O and more.

NO.	TYPES OF CHEMSKETCH DRAWING
1	Energy of Reaction Diagram
2	Different Kinds of Orbital
3	Vacuum Distillation Apparatus
4	Two-chain DNA Strand
5	Lipids and Micelles

        Another interesting part is, on the Atoms toolbar,we can find the Periodic Table of Elements dialog box:

  In short, there so many interactive tools to make it easy for us to deal with our chemistry tasks.

     For this post especially, we are going to briefly explain the use of this software  to sketch: diagrams of the energy of reaction, various types of orbitals vacuum, distillation apparatus, a two-chain DNA strand, and lipids and micelles .

Drawing Energy Reaction Diagram.
 Let me show you how to make Energy Reaction Diagrams.

It looks hard to make it, but after several trials and errors, you will be satisfied with the result though.

                                

There are 3 sections in making this diagram.

A. Drawing a Curve

This section describes how to draw a curve.

1. Switch to the Draw mode by clicking on the General toolbar.

2. Form the File menu, choose New to start a new document.

3. On the Drawing toolbar, click Polyline .

4. Drag horizontally to the right from the starting point of the curve to stretch the control line.

5. Release the mouse button.

6. Move the mouse up to draw the first segment of the curve.

7. Drag horizontally to the right to stretch the control lines. By changing the length of the control lines you can     modify the curve segment.

8. Release the mouse button.

9. Move the mouse down to draw the next segment

10. Repeat the above steps to draw the next two segments.

11. Right-click to finish drawing the curve.

B. Modifying a Curve

The first time you draw with the Polyline tool you might have some trouble getting the curve to turn out the way you want. 

1. If the curve is not already selected, click Select/Move/Resize and then click the curve.

2. On the Editing toolbar, click Edit Nodes . This will show all the nodes of the polyline that can be modified:

3. Click the third node, and you will see the node selected and the control lines appear:

4. Drag the control lines, then select and modify the other nodes until the curve looks as you like.

C. Drawing the X and Y axes

To accomplish drawing of a reaction diagram, the axes are required. Make sure that the Line and Arrow tools are active.

1. From the Tools menu, choose Arrow Style Panel. On the Arrow panel that appears, from the Arrow             Type drop-down list , choose the one-way arrow .

2. From the Options menu, choose Snap on Grid and/or Show Grid to make your drawing easier.

3. Click at the origin of coordinates and drag the mouse up vertically to draw the Y-axis.

4. Click at the origin of coordinates and drag the mouse horizontally to the right to draw the X-axis.

5. Add inscriptions Energy and Reaction Coordinate using the Text and Rotate 90°

Done!! Easy, huh?

Good luck on trying them!

Drawing Different Kinds of Orbitals

There are three different types of orbital. To start drawing, choose Draw button and Polygon icon first. Then you can adjust the structure by dragging the cursor approppriately.

1) p-orbital

To draw this, the initial steps are as follows:

2) d-orbital

To draw this, the initial steps are as follows:

3) pi-type orbital

To draw this, the initial steps are as follows:

Drawing Vacuum Distillation Apparatus

To draw this structure, all the apparatus can be taken from Template Window (on the Menu Bar)>Template List> Lab Kit.

Then organize the arrangement as we desired. The steps are as follows:

To insert the caption box like this;

 The steps are as follows:

DNA Sketch

to make a DNA sketch, 

1. Make sure you are in the draw mood and clear the screen, then switch to and click Polyline
2. then, drag it in this diagram direction.
   
3. to copy the object hold down CTRL+SHIFT, drag it down
4. after copying it, connect the lines and edit the nodes

     5.Make a copy of the obtained segment by dragging it with CTRL+SHIFT, then flip left to right  and send to             back 

    6.Select both segments by dragging or clicking while holding down SHIFT and make a copy (CTRL+drag).              Correct the position using Center Horizontally tool

    7.Double-click on any of them to open the Objects panel. On the Fill tab specify the following settings:        

    8. after clicking apply, it will become somewhere like this,

       

   9.do it again for the segment that has not been fill yet

  10.Select the whole spiral by dragging the selection rectangle so that it includes all the spiral segments and make a copy of it by dragging while holding down CTRL. Click Flip Left to Right and then FlipToptoBottom:

  11.Select the segments marked with bullets in the picture below by clicking while holding down SHIFT, and then click Send to Back

  12. lastly,Select all the segments and group them.

drawing lipids and micelles.

These are the simple steps in drawing the lipids structures. 

first of all, be sure to change to the draw mode, .

Next, Click Ellipse .  Drag in the workspace while holding down SHIFT to draw a circle.

Click on the black color of the Color Palette to fill the circle.  Note that you may use any colour you wish to.

 After that, click Polyline tail and right-click to finish drawing. 

the method of drawing the zigzag correctly.

To easily draw the symmetric zigzag line, you may previously choose the Snap on Grid and/or ShowGrid command (Options menu).

for any further details do refer to this website:http://www.acdlabs.com/products/draw_nom/draw/chemsketch/