1. Select the round-bottom flask by clicking on it. Click in the workspace to add the selected template, and then right-click to hide the template shadow.
2. Open the Template window. Select the three-way adapter (Vigreux distillation column with connecting adapter). Connect it to the flask by clicking and right-click to hide the template shadow.
3. From the Template window, choose the thermometer, and connect it by clicking as shown. Hide the template shadow.
4. From the Template window, choose the Liebig condenser and place it on the workspace near the apparatus by clicking. Right-click to hide the template shadow and switch to the Select/Move/Resize tool .
5. Click on any selection handle (black squares surrounding the distillation column) to quickly switch to the Select/Move/Rotate tool . Rotate the selected object about 730 counterclockwise by dragging any selection handle. The informative cursor will show you the angle of rotation (if the corresponding option has been selected in the General tab of the Preferences dialog box (Options menu)).
6. Move the column by dragging to attach it to the apparatus.
7. From the Template window, choose the vacuum-distilling adapter and attach it to the apparatus.
8. Complete the drawing by connecting the receiving flask (round-bottom flask).
- Annotating the diagram
ACD/ChemSketch enables you to draw many elegant and detailed set-ups of your glassware
apparatus. The Lab Kit template has been recently updated to include burettes, beakers, hot
plates, bunsen burners, etc. so that you will be able to draw an experiment from start to finish.
Let's say that you are preparing the diagram for an instruction manual in an undergraduate
laboratory. You might want to direct the attention of the students to certain aspects of the set up,
possibly even to remind them what the parts are named, or where they are kept in the lab:
1. First, let us set the font to be used for the text. From the Tools menu, choose Font Panel and
Paragraph Panel. Specify the following settings and close the panels:
2. Click Text on the left Drawing toolbar and click to the left of the thermometer. In the text box that appears type Thermometer. Sign out from instructor. To narrow the text box, drag its right border:
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to add other captions. 5. If necessary move the captions to arrange them around the apparatus:
- Inserting Callouts
Now we are going to include the captions into callouts.
1. On the left Drawing toolbar, click the right-bottom corner (i.e., the small white triangle) of
Callout to expand it into more buttons. From the available styles, choose the square
callout type:
2. As you move around with the cursor, you will see the callout shadow appearing around any
object you are pointing to. Point to the text caption so the that callout shadow appears around
it and click to fix it:
2. Drag the lowest node to a new location so that the pointing end correctly points to the object
you want to say something about:
3. Without leaving the Edit Nodes mode, click on another callout and repeat step 2 as needed.
4. As soon as all the callouts are redirected as necessary, right-click in the workspace to leave
the Edit Nodes mode.
5. Using the Draw Arrow tool , add arrows to indicate the water inlets and outlets.
6. Select both arrow tools and add arrows to indicate the water inlets and outlets.
6. Select both arrows and double-click to display the Objects Panel. Set the pen color to red and
click Apply.
- Grouping or ungrouping elements
To be able to manipulate this picture as a single object, select all its components by pressing
CTRL+A and click Group on the Editing toolbar. Now you can move and/or
resize the picture as a whole without the risk of losing or leaving behind any of it elements.
If later you decide to edit any of the picture components, select the picture and release Group.
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