Drawing Settings

Drawing settings are document settings that affect how bonds and other objects are drawn. You can configure the drawing settings for an entire document or for a particular object as follows:

Changes made to the drawing settings affect the active document window only. Drawing settings can be saved in Stationery Pads.

To apply settings from other documents to your document, select "Apply Document Settings from..." from the File menu.


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Chain Angle	Set the angle (from 1 to 179 degrees) between bonds created by the Acyclic chain tool or modified by the Structure CleanUp command. For more information see, "Drawing Acyclic Chains" and "Using Structure CleanUp:".
Bond Spacing	Set the distance between the lines in double or triple bonds. The distance is set either as: · The percent of the length of the bond (between 1 and 100). This allows for proportional spacing to be used if different bond lengths are used in the drawing. An absolute value you choose in the units specified for your document.
Fixed Length	Constrain the length of the bonds drawn to the length you specify when the Fixed Lengths command in the Object menu is selected (a check mark is next to it). This also adjusts the preferred bond length for structures modified by the Structure CleanUp command. For more information see "Drawing with Fixed Lengths" and "Using Structure CleanUp:".
Bold Width	Set the width of the line used when bold and wedge bonds are drawn. The Bold Width setting must be greater than the Line Width setting. The end of a wedge is 1.5 times the bold width.
Line Width	Set the width of all bonds, lines, and arrowheads in the drawing.
Margin Width	Change the amount of space surrounding all atom labels that will erase portions of the bonds to which they are attached. The margin width also determines the amount of white space surrounding the front bonds in a bond crossing. For more information, see "Editing Atom Labels" and "Changing Bond Crossings".
Hash Spacing	Set the spacing between the hashed lines used when wedged hashed bonds, hashed bonds, dashed bonds, dashed arrows, or dashed curves are drawn.
Color	Change the color in of selected objects. For more information, see "Customizing the Color Palette".
Units	Set the units used in the Object Settings dialog box to centimeters, inches, points, or picas.
Atom and Bond Indicators	Set which indicators you want to display in your drawings. For more information about using indicators, see "Atom Numbering" and "Showing Stereochemistry".