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With tablets becoming common in schools I saw possibilities for teachers and students flicking structures back and forth in pop quizzes etc. When these apps originally appeared I saw them as principally teaching tools, given the reduced set of features and lower price point. An annoying UI “feature” that I earnestly implore Apple to kill ASAP.
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Witness the endless pop-ups in Safari on every other web page imploring you to download and view their content in their app. It’s a peculiar strategy for CambridgeSoft/PE who evidently see ChemDraw Cloud as the future, particularly as everyone else in the app space seems to be trying to drive people away from web services and onto apps. I was happy to pay around $10 for ChemDraw when it came out so I’m disappointed that it’s been abruptly dropped.
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Personally I have always preferred Pymol for visualising proteins for use online and in print, so the loss of Chem3D for iPad isn’t as big of a deal for me as ChemDraw. It just sits there until you go back to Chem3D. As of this morning choosing Dropbox as the export function simply flips you out to the Dropbox app, if installed, to the default root directory listing page, and no option to name the file or specify a location. Dropbox export (PDF, PNG, CDXML) works fine as previouslyĪctually I don’t recall Dropbox export ever working for Chem3D, whereas it works fine for ChemDraw.Drawing, editing, saving, and (some) exporting of structures.So here is a summary of what still works. ChemDraw: I forgot to screenshot it but I presume this means Flick2Share. Testing this morning on my rapidly ageing iPad3 the last-downloaded versions (ChemDraw 2.01, Chem3D 2.02) worked OK, except that on startup you may see an oblique message to the effect that “a sharing option could not be enabled”. However, if you have downloaded the apps to your iPad they will continue to function. I like the ability to quickly share structures to social media, particularly seeing as the desktop versions struggle to easily produce GIFs that retain resolution in web browsers, especially on Twitter, and in 3rd Party Twitter clients, I’m sad that the iOS apps are gone, particularly ChemDraw. ChemDraw, Chem3D, CDSL iOS Announcement © Cambridgesoft / Perkin-Elmer