The most intuitive opensource 2D chemical drawing tool.
This is targeted to be the most intuitive opensource 2D chemical drawing tool.
You can draw organic chemical structures and reactions very easily and quickly.
- read and write support for SMILES format
- In future more chemical file formats will be supported
- Save to PNG, SVG and Editable SVG
- Atom, Bond and other objects coloring support
Download the precompiled packages from releases page.
For Windows download .exe package and install it (for Windows 7 and above).
For Linux download .AppImage package, mark it executable, and double click to run.
If you wan to install using pip, first install these dependencies...
- python3
- python3-pyqt5
- pytqt5-dev-tools
Then inside data/ dir, exec compile_rc, and compile_ui. The UI files and resource files will be generated.
Then inside project root directory, run following command..
$ sudo pip3 install .
To uninstall run..
$ sudo pip3 uninstall chemcanvas
To run after installing, type command..
$ chemcanvas
If you want to run the program without/before installing, then
Open terminal and change to project root directory and run
$ ./chemcanvas.py
