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Revision as of 17:29, 23 April 2013
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Slide Number 1 Title Slide |
Hello everyone.
Welcome to the tutorial on Basic Operations in GChemPaint. |
| Slide Number 2
Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial we will learn to
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System Requirements |
Here I am using,
Ubuntu Linux OS version 12.04 GChemPaint version 0.12.10 |
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Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial you should be familiar with,
GChemPaint chemical structure editor. If not, for relevant tutorials, please visit our website. |
| Switch to GChemPaint application
Dash home >>In the Search bar type GChemPaint Click on the GChemPaint icon. |
To open a new GChemPaint application.
Click on Dash home. In the Search bar that appears, type GChemPaint. Click on the GChemPaint icon. |
| Let's begin the tutorial by opening an existing file. | |
| Click on File >>Open | Click on File menu, select Open and click on it. |
| A window containing files and folders opens. | |
| Select the file named “propane” | From here, Select the file named “propane” |
| Click on Open button. | Click on Open, to open the file. |
| Let's add some text below the propane structure. | |
| Select “Add or modify a text”
Point to the Property page opens. |
Select “Add or modify a text” tool from tool box.
The text tool's Property page opens. |
| Point to the fields | The Property page contains fields like - Family, Style, Size, Underline, and others. |
| Point to Family >> scroll list | Family field has a list of font names.
Let's scroll down the list. |
| Select Arial Black | I will select Arial Black from the Family. |
| Click on the Display area | Click on the Display area below Propane structure.
You can see a blinking cursor enclosed in a green box. |
| Type ”Propane” | Let's type the name of the compound as “Propane”. |
| Change Style to Bold Italic. | Let's now change the Style to Bold Italic.
Select the text “Propane” click on Bold Italic. |
| Increase fontsize to 16 | I will increase the fontsize to 16.
Let's scroll down and click on 16. |
| Observe the changes in the text. | |
| Point to Underline field.
Show the drop down list >> select Single |
Next, let's use the Underline feature.
It has a drop down list with options-- None, Single, Double and Low. Let's select Single. |
| Point to text. | Let's change the color of the text.
Default color of the text is “black” |
| Point to the color field.
Click on drop down arrow. Select color to “purple” |
Click on the drop down arrow of the color field.
You can see different colors here. I will select “purple”. <Pause the narration> |
| Text position range>> -100 to 100 | We can also change the position of the text.
Position field has range from -100 to 100 |
| Select text>>click on up arrow >>Text moves up from Position “0” to “100” | Let's see how the position of the text changes.
Select text and click on the up arrow triangle with the mouse. Text moves upwards. |
| Select text>> click on down arrow>>Text moves down from Position “0” to “-100” | Likewise if we click on down arrow triangle, text moves downwards.
<Pause the narration> |
| Bring text to normal postion
Type "0" in the postion field >> click on the display area |
Let's bring the text to normal position.
Type 0 in the postion field and click on the Display area |
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Assignment |
Here is an assignment for you.
Your completed assignment should look like this. |
| Let's now learn to select and move objects. | |
| From the Tool box, click on >>Select one or more objects | From the “Tool box” click on the tool “Select one or more objects”. |
| Click on pentane | Click on “pentane” |
| Press the left mouse button>> drag it to a different position >> release the mouse button. | Without releasing the mouse button, drag it to a different position.
Now, release the mouse button. |
| Next let's learn to rotate an object. | |
| To rotate objects,>>click on “Select one or more objects” tool. | To rotate the objects, click on “Select one or more objects” tool. |
| point to the tools
Flip the selection horizontally, Flip the selection vertically and Rotate the selection. |
The properties page has three tools
Flip the selection horizontally, Flip the selection vertically Rotate the selection. |
| To use these tools. | |
| Click on pentane structure>> Select Rotate the selection>> move the mouse pointer | Click on the Pentane structure.
Select Rotate the selection option. Go to the Display area and place the mouse over the object. Move the mouse pointer in clock-wise or anti-clock-wise direction. Observe the rotation in the object.
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| Now, let's learn to flip objects. | |
| Flip the Pentane structure horizontally. | Let's flip the Pentane structure horizontally. |
| Click on Flip the selection horizontally tool>>flip structure horizontally. | Click on Flip the selection horizontally tool to flip the structure horizontally |
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Assignment |
Pause this tutorial and Flip the selection vertically on your own. |
| Let's now group and align objects
To group the objects, select all the objects. | |
| Go to Edit menu >> click on Select all.
Press CTRL+A |
For this, go to Edit menu and click on Select All.
you can also press CTRL+A. keys simultaneously. |
| Right click on any one of the objects | Right-click on any one of the objects. |
| In the context menu >>select Group and/or align objects option | The context menu opens.
Select Group and/or align objects option. |
| Point to the dialog box | A dialog box pops up. |
| Click on the Group check-box | Click on the Group check-box. |
| Uncheck the Align and Space evenly options. | Uncheck the Align and Space evenly options, if they are selected. |
| Click on OK button | Click on OK button.
We see that all objects are grouped together. |
| Press CTRL+A >> select objects | Let us now align the objects.
Press CTRL and A to select all objects. |
| Right click on any one of the objects | Right-click on any one of the objects. |
| In the context menu >>select Group and/or align objects option | The context menu opens.
Select Group properties |
| Point to the dialog box | A dialog box pops up. |
| Click on the Align check-box | Click on the Align check-box. |
| Click on the drop-down list.
point to Normal, Top, Mid-height, Bottom, Left, Center and Right. |
Align option has a drop-down list.
It has some options to align the objects. |
| Select “Center” >> click OK | Let's select “Left” and click OK.
Observe the changes. |
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Assignment |
Pause this tutorial and align objects with other align options on your own. |
| Let's learn how to use cut, copy and paste operations | |
| Go Edit menu >> Point to Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear. | Go to Edit menu.
It contains basic edit options like Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear. |
| Point to options | The common short-cut keys for these options
CTRL+X to cut CTRL+C to copy CTRL+V to paste will work in GChemPaint as well. |
| using “Select one or more objects” tool>> cut and paste objects>>at different places of diplay area | Select the object using “Select one or more objects” tool. click on the object
Let's press CTRL+X to cut it. Press CTRL+V to paste the object at a different position on the Display area. Observe that when we cut the object, it is deleted from its original place. |
| Copy and paste objects>>at different places of diplay area | Next, let's copy and paste the object at a different place on the diplay area.
click on the object press CTRL+C to copy and CTRL+V to paste. Observe that when we copy the object, it is not deleted from its original place. |
| Select all objects >>click on clear | To clear the Display area, select all objects.
press CTRL +A to select all objects. Go to Edit menu click on Clear. |
| Go to Edit menu>>select Undo >>press CTRL+Z >> to undo | To get back our original structures, go to Edit menu and select Undo.
Or press CTRL+Z. |
| Delete the object using Delete key from keyboard. | To delete object using the Delete Key on the Keyboard, Select the object.
Press Delete key. |
| Point to Eraser tool |
Let's now learn to use Eraser tool to delete part of the structure. |
| Select Eraser tool>>move mouse near one structure. | Select Eraser tool from toolbox.
Place the mouse near any one of the objects. |
| Delete red colored part of the structure. | Part of the structure turns red in color.
Click on the red colored part of the structure to delete it. |
| Undo the changes | Let's now Undo the changes to get our original structures.
Press CTRL+Z. |
| Click on Save the current file button on tool bar | Let's save the file now click on Save the current file button to save. |
| With this we come to the end of the tutorial.
Let's summarize. | |
| Slide Number 8
Summary |
In this tutorial we have learnt how to
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| Slide Number 9
Assignment |
As an assignment
use Eraser tool and convert n-octane structure to n-pentane n-hexane structure to Ethane. Output of the assignmet should look like this. |
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Acknowledgement |
Watch the video available at
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What is a Spoken Tutorial It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it |
| Slide Number 11 | The Spoken Tutorial Project Team:
Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials Gives certificates to those who pass an online test For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org |
| Slide number 12 | Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project
It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India More information on this Mission is available at http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro ] This is Madhuri Ganpathi from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for joining. |
