Rotating part of a molecule can be surprisingly easy to get wrong. A drag may move the whole selection, use an inconvenient axis, or leave you unsure which side of a bond will rotate. When your goal is to adjust…

A close-up can make a molecular structure easier to inspect—but changing the camera target at the same time can shift the visual center of the scene. That may be unwelcome when you want to keep the same point of focus…

A distance or angle can look correct in a static structure and change as soon as you move an atom or run an interactive minimization. Repeating measurements by hand interrupts the work—and makes it harder to see whether a geometric…

A cloud molecular-modeling job can contain more than a result worth inspecting: it may include input files, intermediate data, and details about how the work was run. When a collaborator asks to see a job, the practical question is not…

When a molecular scene looks wrong—or simply behaves differently than expected—it is tempting to assume the molecule itself is the problem. But a SAMSON document can contain several kinds of models, each with a different job. A surface, a set…

A molecular structure can be easy to inspect while still being hard to explain. When you need to show how a group of atoms changes position, a single static view may not communicate the transformation—and moving atoms without a plan…

A molecular animation can show atoms moving, but reviewing that motion later is easier when the trajectory has been captured as a path. In SAMSON, the Record path animation records atom positions as a presentation plays. This is useful when…

Learning a molecular modeling application often involves a familiar challenge: you can read about a workflow, but still feel unsure when it is time to carry it out. Which interface area should you use? What should happen next? And how…