MarvinView Quick Help

• Right click for pop-up menu.
  (Control+click on Mac)
• Double click to view the structure in a separate window.

• In View or the pop-up menu, select the Hydrogens submenu to change the way H labels and atoms are shown.
• Add explicit hydrogens using Edit -> Explicit H atoms -> Add.

• To start a static molecule spinning, select Animation -> Play in the pop-up or the View menu.
• To start animating an XYZ sequence, select Animation -> Play.
• To stop spinning while continuing the animation, uncheck Animation -> Drag to Spin.
• Use the Display submenu to select a rendering style from Wireframe, Sticks, Ball & Stick or Spacefill.
• To generate bonds for an XYZ structure with a different bond length cut-off, select Edit -> Bonds -> Regenerate.

Colors

• In View or the pop-up menu, use the Colors submenu to select monochrome or CPK coloring, or to change the background color.

Printing

• To print a molecule select Print -> This Molecule in the pop-up menu.
• To print the visible molecules of a molecule table select Print -> All Visible in the pop-up menu or Print in the File menu.
• To print all molecules loaded in a molecule table select Print -> All in the pop-up menu.

• Translation, zooming and rotation:
  1. Use the keyboard to select mode:
     F5 - Translate or Drag: Dragging the mouse across the canvas will result in a same displacement of the molecule.
     F6 - Zoom: Hold down mouse button while dragging mouse vertically to zoom.
     F7 - Rotate in 3D:Allows you to rotate the molecule in 3D around a point at the 3D center of the molecule.
     Shift-F7 - Rotate in 2D: The center of the molecule becomes the center of rotation and the molecule will rotate around this point in the direction of the mouse drag.
     F8 - Zoom/Rotate: Hold down mouse button while dragging mouse vertically (to zoom) or horizontally (to rotate).
     (alternatively: right click for the pop-up menu, select the Transform submenu, then select Translate or Drag, Zoom, Rotate in 3D, Rotate in 2D, or Zoom),
  2. drag the structure with the mouse.
• To translate without using the menu, press Ctrl while dragging.
• To zoom or rotate without using the menu, press Shift while dragging.

Molecules can be moved also between different Marvin windows, or from a file manager to Marvin. To perform a Drag & Drop operation,

1. press F5 for Translate or Drag mode
   (alternatively: right click for the pop-up menu and select Translate or Drag in the Transform submenu)
2. drag the structure with the mouse
3. drop it over another viewer cell or over a sketcher window