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Chem3D Users Manual - CambridgeSoft

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Chapter 4: Building and Editing<br />

Models<br />

Overview<br />

<strong>Chem3D</strong> enables you to build or change a model by<br />

three principal methods:<br />

• Using the ChemDraw panel, which utilizes<br />

ChemDraw to build and insert or copy and edit<br />

models.<br />

• Using Bond tools, which build using carbon<br />

exclusively.<br />

• Using the Build from Text tool (hereafter<br />

referred to as the Text tool), which allows you<br />

to build or edit models using atom labels and<br />

substructures.<br />

Usually, a combination of methods yields the best<br />

results. For example, you might build a carbon<br />

skeleton of a model with ChemDraw or the bond<br />

tools, and then change some of the carbons into<br />

other elements with the Text tool. Or you can build<br />

a model exclusively using the Text tool.<br />

In addition, you can use Structure tools to change<br />

bond lengths and angles, or to change<br />

stereochemistry.<br />

Setting the Model<br />

Building Controls<br />

You control how you build by changing options in<br />

the Building control panel in the Model Settings<br />

dialog box. The default mode is all options selected.<br />

You can choose to build in a faster mode, with less<br />

built-in “chemical intelligence”, by turning off one<br />

or more of the options.<br />

Intelligent mode yields a chemically reasonable 3D<br />

model as you build. Fast mode provides a quick way<br />

to generate a backbone structure. You can then turn<br />

it into a chemically reasonable 3D model by using<br />

the Structure menu Rectify and Clean Up tools.<br />

To change the Building mode:<br />

1. From the File menu, choose Model Settings.<br />

The Model Settings dialog box appears.<br />

2. Select the Model Building tab.<br />

3. Select or deselect the appropriate radio<br />

buttons.<br />

ChemOffice 2005/<strong>Chem3D</strong> Building and Editing Models • 73<br />

Setting the Model Building Controls

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