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[Kathy Douds]

The hard part is doing it faster then you can draw the chemsketch structure, unless of course the paper you are working on has a dozen of these things, at which point you could probably learn the graphics format, programming language AND still do it faster then drawing these out in ChemSketch.

With all the symmetries involved, this looks relatively straightforward to do in Illustrator. Just start with some end pieces and do rotate and duplicates with a typed in angle. Then group it and build inward. Illustrator can crank out EPS or SVG pretty easily.

I would say that the trouble with chemical drawing packages is the lack of a means of calculating and typing in rotations and displacements (with duplication) with respect to reference points that are not necessarily chemically significant. The obsolete but very cheap general drawing package Graphicsworks was good for that & it had a programming language useful for iterative stuff. There was a built-in function for duplicating an object evenly round a circle.