View menu

Isometry                                         Switches to isometry mode;

Perspective                                     Switches to perspective mode;

Update rotation center                    Changes the point which the molecule rotates around on scrolling (see Interface notes);

Best view                                       Moves the "camera" to view the molecule better foreshortened;

Center                                            Moves the "camera" to view the molecule at the center of the image, filling 4/5 of its width or height;

Specify the “Camera” position         Opens a window which allows the user to explicitly set the coordinates and orientation of the view “camera”;

Copy the "Camera" position to clipboard Copies the coordinates and orientation of the view “Camera” into clipboard;

Paste the “Camera” position from clipboard Restores the coordinates and orientation of the “Camera” previously saved in clipboard;

Draw "export" picture (with anti-aliasing)                        Renders anti-aliased picture of molecule on the image;

Show axes                                      Displays X, Y, Z axes on the molecule;

Center axes to molecule                  If checked, the XYZ axes will begin at the center of molecule (otherwise, they will begin at the point with (0;0;0) coordinates);

Labels on atoms                             These subitems allow different labels on atoms in displayed molecule to be shown:

Seq. number                                   The atoms are supported with labels identifying their sequence number;

Type                                              The atoms are supported with labels identifying their type (H, C,  Cl, etc);

Type+number                                 The atoms are supported with labels identifying their type and sequence number;

Type+number in group                    The atoms are supported with labels identifying their type and sequence number in groups of the atom type;

Clear labels                                    All labels on atoms are removed;

Show labels on selected atoms only If checked, the labels are shown only on atoms which are selected;

Labels style                                    Changes the default appearance of labels on atoms (size, font, etc).

Show structural parameters                      These subitems allow geometrical parameters in current structure to be viewed:

Show all interatomic distances         The distances between all atoms in selected fragment (or the whole molecule, if no atom is selected) are shown on the image. To hide them, right-click on the screen;

Show all bond lengths                     The distances between bonded atoms in the selected fragment or the whole molecule are shown;

Show all bond angles                      All bond angles in the selected fragment or the whole molecule are shown;

Clear                                              Clears all parameters designations;

Style                                               Allows the default appearance of lines and labels which represent structural parameters to be changed.

Show Van-Der-Waals spheres       Transparent spheres with sizes corresponding to standard Van-Der-Waals radii are drawn around all atoms (this feature is limited in the current version);

Release all current captions                         If clicked, all captions on atoms will be unlinked to their atoms (this option can be used, for example, to obtain a picture of molecule where each atom has two different labels). This mode allows one to draw such pictures:

Release all vectors, isosurfaces... same with custom vectors, planes, surfaces.

Hide certain atoms                          Hides all hydrogen, dummy atoms, etc;  

Toolbars          Displays or hides the toolbars on the main window.  

Copy image     Copies the picture of the displayed molecule into the clipboard.

Copy current image without anti-aliasing          Does the same without drawing anti-aliased picture (usually anti-aliased images are better, but with the 2d style the labels on atoms sometimes look worse). Use this option if the "Copy image" option produces bugs. This menu item simply copies into the clipboard the image currently shown on the main window.

Alter the size of the image on Chemcraft     Alters the size of Chemcraft window. This option can be useful if you need to draw a big picture via previous menu item.

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