[ale] Any Chemical types here?

Tom Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Mon Dec 27 11:37:40 EST 2010


I've got it, and had it. It does a lovely job of 3D displays, and is a joy 
to use (so far). But my need is for the really old fashioned 2D, printed 
projection type stuff, and so far, I haven't discovered how to get that 
out of Avogadro.

Thanks for the the lead tho.

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Pablo Ordonez wrote:

> Hi there
>
> Go to synaptic and try Avogadro. May be it is too much if you are only
> taken a course but if you want to pursue a career in the field, it is
> the right one.
>
> Pablo
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tom Freeman
> <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have put this off longer that sanity suggests is safe: Anybody on this
>> list use one of the open source chemical structure editors on a regular
>> basis? Which one suits you best, given your needs?
>>
>> Back story:
>>
>> I start teaching a freshman level Organic/Biochem class to a crowd of
>> community college students in another week and change. I need a structure
>> editor with which to create chemical structures for import to
>> OpenOffice which is my currently chosen document creation solution (buzz
>> word central - sorry). For at least the first session, I will need to
>> create 50-60 molecular structures a week, on the budget of an adjunct
>> teacher at a state school (ie. no budget at all). Worse (in a way) it is a
>> small school, and I'm the only chemical type on staff at all. All my
>> chemical/education contacts are Windows types, and thus not terribly
>> useful in this case.
>>
>> Currently, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on the laptop, and Fedora 13 on the
>> desktop without development systems on either. I know how to get the
>> developement systems working under Fedora, but I've been less successful
>> with Ubuntu.
>>
>> Any clues running around the list?
>>
>> Thanks for the assistance in advance people. Even if I cann't get to
>> Atlanta functions, this is an awesome resource here!
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