Structure display options
Structure display options can be modified with the View Settings button on the General toolbar, which opens the View Settings dialog box. The options offered here are the following:
- Show chiral flag: The visibility of the "Absolute" chiral flag can be turned on/off.
- Show valence errors: Marking of atoms with incorrect valence can be turned on/off.
- Show lone pairs: The visibility of the lone pairs can be turned on/off.
- Index atoms: When checked, the atom indices (the order of the atoms put on the canvas) are displayed.
- Show atom maps: When this function is active, atom map is visible.
- Use CPK colors: When checked, the atoms are displayed colored according to the Corey-Pauling-Koltun convention. The two halves of a bond between two atoms will receive the color of the atom they are connected to.
- Show carbon labels: When checked, the carbon atom labels become visible.
- Implicit H: To display the automatically added necessary hydrogens on atoms, an option from the drop-down list in the View Settings window should be chosen. These options are the following:
Off |
Disable implicit hydrogens on every atom. |
Hetero |
Display implicit hydrogens on hetero atoms. |
Hetero and Terminal |
Display implicit hydrogens on hetero atoms and terminal carbons. (Default setting) |
All |
Display implicit hydrogens on every atom. |
Display: You can choose between four display options: wireframe, ball and stick, stick, spacefill. You can see an example for each display mode both in 2D and 3D mode below.
2D 3D Wireframe 
Ball and Stick 
Stick 
Spacefill 
