Build it: answer with a model kit

Photograph a Molymod model kit and an AI reads the structure, a pointed atom, or a conformation. A free demo of ChemIllusion's Build-it question type.

Build it: answer with a model kit

Photograph a Molymod model kit and an AI reads your answer — you can build a molecule, point to an atom or bond, or set a conformation. In a course, students confirm the reading and the normal grader scores it. Try it yourself with any of the tasks below.

The first two tasks are questions from Build It / Draw It, a 166-question model-kit curriculum. Anyone can open its Chapter 3 questions.

Hands hold a ball-and-stick model above a laptop whose camera preview shows that model. — Photographing the kit. Build it shows a preview of the one photo that will be read.

Start here

Build butane

Loading the 3D model

butane, eclipsed

Turn it (3D)Ball and stickSpace filling

From the Build It / Draw It question set, Chapter 3. See the other Chapter 3 questions

Build butane, CH₃CH₂CH₂CH₃, with your model kit and photograph it. You will keep this one molecule for the rest of the module and look down its C2–C3 bond.

Choose a task:

From Build It / Draw It (Chapter 3)