Inexpensive or free software to just use to draw chemical equations and structures

I am a chemistry professor who is finishing semester sequestered because of COVID-19. I bought a Huion 1060+ with the intent of using it write equations/formulas for my students in our online classes. I am not drawing major artwork – just an occasional simple molecular structure.

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I know there’s an open-source extension to LATEX specifically for chemical formulae – I think it’s called chemfig – here’s what I just found on quick lookup:

Overleaf – Chemfig

Also, for simple diagrammatic stuff, if you don’t feel you need a chemistry formula specific tool, and general graphics / vector drawing works for you, then bear in mind that Inkscape is free and open source.

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Source : Link , Question Author : Don , Answer Author : GerardFalla

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