Several new tools have been added, including an arbitrary ring size and arbitrary chain size tool. A new floatDrawTools option uses a floating toolbar for the drawing tools, just like the desktop software. A new resizable option enables the user to resize the sketcher canvas.

A new requireStartingAtom option allows you to disable to starting atom requirement while sketching. The sketcher has been significantly developed.There is a lot in this update, please see the links below for more information. A new iChemLabs Cloud service allows developers to match entire mechanisms for educational eBooks and advanced reaction databases. SVG can now be exported from the ChemDoodle Web Components in addition to PNG. The entire website has also been improved, with new advanced tutorials for working with the sketcher to listen to user changes, or show off an advanced in browser sketcher interface that mimics the desktop software, for instance. Shadows can now be rendered in 3D scenes. The shader system used by the 3D components has been dramatically improved for much faster performance (and new improvements added like gamma correction) and a deferred shader has been implemented to provide advanced graphics techniques like outlining, software antialiasing and screen space ambient occlusion. New 2D shapes include dynamic brackets, atom mappings and variable attachment points, while molecular surfaces (vdW, SAS, Connolly) can now be generated and rendered in 3D components. Condensed labels with abbreviations are now supported, for advanced chemistry.

The sketcher has seen significant work, with new drawing tools (rings, chains, templates, atom label tool, more).

Version 8 is the largest update to the ChemDoodle Web Components library to date. Some of the new features in CWC8 Executive Summary

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