I toggled it to , expecting relief. That’s when the real problems began.
Let me break down the experience.
I’m keeping it installed and checking for updates. The moment this feature is fixed, my rating jumps to a 4 or 5. But as of today, it’s a frustrating bottleneck that should have been caught in QA. automatic sdf downloading is disabled or failed.
Enabling the feature didn’t solve things; it just changed the error message. Now, instead of silence, I get a pop-up: “Failed to download SDF data for [asset name]. Check connection or repository URL.”
I’ve been using this software for several weeks now, and while the core feature set shows promise, I’ve hit a wall that has brought my productivity to a near standstill: This issue, which might seem like a minor backend detail to developers, is proving to be a major usability nightmare for someone who relies on external geometric or molecular data. I toggled it to , expecting relief
First, I noticed that nothing was happening when I tried to load assets that clearly required SDF data. After digging through three levels of nested menus, I found the culprit: Why? There’s no clear explanation in the documentation. Is it a security precaution? A bandwidth-saving measure? A licensing issue? The user is left guessing.
SDFs are crucial for representing 3D shapes, collision detection, or visualizing molecular surfaces. In this software, the ability to fetch SDF data automatically from a remote repository or database is a advertised as a time-saver. Instead of manually locating, downloading, and importing .sdf files, the program should handle it seamlessly in the background. I’m keeping it installed and checking for updates
Until the automatic SDF downloading works reliably – or at least fails gracefully with user-friendly diagnostics – I cannot recommend this software for any serious workflow that depends on external SDF data. The manual workaround exists, but it’s so tedious that it negates the software’s efficiency gains elsewhere.