CCL: Yet another software recommendation request

 Sent to CCL by: "Noel M O Boyle" [baoilleach++gmail.com]
 Avogadro can do this. It's Open Source and available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
 It's available from http://avogadro.sf.net
 Noel
 > "Andrew D. Fant fant{=}pobox.com"  wrote:
 >
 > Sent to CCL by: "Andrew D. Fant" [fant]|[pobox.com]
 > Greetings all,
 >     Having reached that point of my life where I want to spend time less
 > time being my own systems administrator, I've decided to replace my
 > (deceased) notebook with a shiny new mac (at least after macworld when
 > the prices drop).  Given this, would people please share their favorite
 > 3d capable molecular editor that runs natively in MacOSX and Carbon.  I
 > know that there are free options if I use parallels to run something
 > under Windows, or the X server, but I have had nothing but hassles with
 > that approach on the lab workstation (nasty cut and paste errors and
 > random crashes).  I was apparently the last to discover that ChemDraw
 > doesn't do any real 3D functionality on the Mac after buying a copy.
 > What I want is something that will let me sketch a small molecule with a
 > reasonably simple interface, convert it to a 3D form, and do enough of a
 > structural minimization to get the geometry cleaned up enough that a
 > real MM/MD or quantum program won't choke on it.  Oh, and it needs to be
 > within the budget of a self-funded graduate student, which is to say
 > that I am not eager to drop several hundred dollars for it.
 >
 > Any nominees?
 >
 > Thanks,
 >      Andy
 >
 >