What is a .CDX file?
CDX is a ChemDraw chemical-structure drawing. Created by PerkinElmer.
- Did you know
- ChemDraw is the standard tool chemists use to draw molecules for publication.
- CDX is the tagged binary native format of ChemDraw, the molecule-drawing program first built in the 1980s and now owned by Revvity.
- Because it is in the public domain, CDX was adopted by the US Patent Office as its standard format for chemical structures.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify and read more scientific, medical and engineering files: R serialized data (RDS/RData), ABIF sequencing traces, VASP/Gaussian/XCrySDen DFT structures, ChemDraw (CDX/CDXML), Axon ABF and NI TDMS instrument data, BrainVision/Neuroscan/EEGLAB EEG, Gmsh/Abaqus/Nastran/ANSYS FEA decks, SPICE netlists, VTK structured/rectilinear grids and oscilloscope waveforms.
- Depth of analysis
- .CDX is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .CDX file
- Drag a .CDX file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.