KingDraw Tutorial- "Group Tool"

In the process of studying molecular structure, we often use some fixed abbreviations to replace common groups to simplify the molecular structure.

KingDraw provides you with common groups and custom group drawing for your convenience. You can select common groups by the [Group Tool]. When the common groups provided do not meet your needs, you can also freely create the groups you need by adding custom groups.

How to use the group

Add common groups

Click the [Group Tool] on the right to open the "Common Groups" interface. Click on the group you want to select. Click on the desired position in the drawing board and the group will automatically connect to the structure.

Find more groups

Click [more] to enter the "Group Search" interface, you can view more groups. Click [Quick Search] to quickly search for a group by name.

Custom group

If the existing group does not meet the drawing requirements, you can customize the adding group.

Click [Group Tool] → [more] to enter the "Group Search" interface.

Click the [+] sign in the upper right corner to enter the group drawing and draw the desired group.

After the drawing is complete and the group name is set, click the “Save” button and the drawn group will appear in the “     Quick search” interface.

When the group is drawn, if it needs to be connected to other structures, you need to mark the connected endpoints with "R".

Common operations for group tools

On the “Quick search” interface, the red box selected group is “Common Group”. Press and hold any group to pop up the operation menu.

Set/cancel common groups

Long press [Using Group] and select [Set as Common] in the menu to set the group as common.

Press and hold [Common Group] and select [Cancel Common] in the menu to cancel the group from the common list.

Similarly, you can also uncheck the commonly used groups by clicking the button in the upper right corner and clicking [X] after the group.

Edit group

Press and hold the group and select [Edit] in the pop-up list to re-edit the group.

Delet group

Press and hold the group and select [Delete] in the pop-up list to delete the group.