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Add OSRA (Optical Structure Recognition Application) plug-in

This would allow the conversion of PDF or other image files into native and editable ChemDraw files.
Mackay Steffensen about 3 years ago in  0

CHEM3D for Mac

Please bring back CHEM3D for Mac.
Mackay Steffensen about 3 years ago in  2

Change colour of all objects of one colour

An aesthetics idea rather than chemical functionality It would be nice to be able to change a colour without selecting the bonds/molecules. Say you had a handful of molecules and in each one a single bond was red. It would be nice to be able to ch...
Gareth Rowlands about 3 years ago in  1

Character Map

The current Character Map on Chemdraw (picture 4) (View > Show Character Map Window) is an imitation of the symbols on MSWord(font: symbol. picture 5). Can we get a character map window that is relevant/ customised for chemists and chemistry st...
Junming He about 3 years ago in  4

Curly Bracket Size/Shape Control

It would be nice to have more control when you resize brackets. For an example of how this could be implemented see how PowerPoint controls bracket size and shape.
Mackay Steffensen about 3 years ago in  1

Stereochemical assignment for Atropisomers during "Convert Name To Structure"

DISCUSSION: If stereochemical assignment of biaryl atropisomers involves marking stereochemistry of one atom at the hindered bond using Bold Bond tool, only one stereoisomer is correctly assigned during "Convert Name To Structure":(S), but not (R)...
Victor Dubina about 3 years ago in  5 Already exists

Filled rings do not obey layers

Filled rings are always stuck in the background layer. This is a problem when a colored ring needs to be placed into a filled box. Only the bonds show up in the foreground. See attachment below. The first ring is in front of the box, the second ri...
Juha Siitonen about 3 years ago in  2 Planned

Flipping

I know there is a related topic, but think this is different. I draw a molecule with absolute stereochemistry. For simple example (2R,5R)-5-chloro-2-methylpiperidine. The I decide that I drew it 'upside down' and want to flip the vertical. I do so...
Mike Rowley about 3 years ago in  7

Text alignment

Please make text alignment focus on the baseline not the top or bottom of textbox. When aligning text it would be preferable to control alignment on the text not the object (textbox). The picture attached shows two sentences aligned 'top edges', '...
Gareth Rowlands about 3 years ago in  0

On macOS, schemes copied out of Word docs originating from Windows fails.

When a colleague using Windows sends me a Word docx containing ChemDraw structures, the structures/schema can't be copied on macOS from the Word doc and pasted into a ChemDraw file. Not even as a graphic. A completely blank document results.Word (...
Simon Saubern about 3 years ago in  0