ChemDoodle

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ChemDoodle is a chemical sketcher application that works on all operating systems (both 32 and 64 bit). It boasts a large feature set, customizable graphics, and the ability to paste scalable vector graphics into Microsoft Office, iWork, and OpenOffice. It reads and writes competitor formats and offers web and mobile extensions. The application's 3D graphics engine allows mentors to render text and show atom labels with required font, size, and color. Teachers can interact with models in real-time, generate relevant 3D coordinates, and prepare partial and complete chemical structures for display. Users can also add transparency effects on models and visualize objects with or without back faces. ChemDoodle 2D includes various drawing tools, which enables individuals to tag bonds or atoms, auto-layout attributes, perform structure cleaning, and create custom elemental color sets. It is a paid, proprietary software with a free trial and version available. It is considered an alternative to ChemCanvas, speciolab, XDrawChem, MedChem Designer, Chemaxon Marvin, ChemDraw, ACD/ChemSketch and JChemPaint. It has a rating of 4.4 based on 21 reviews.