Getting help

The Abaqus/CAE HTML documentation is available through the Help menu on the main menu bar. This section provides a brief description of the HTML online documentation and explains how to use the Help menu to find information.

The features described in this section apply only to the HTML documentation, not the PDF-format guides.

Note:

  • On Windows platforms, the help system uses your default web browser to display the online documentation.

  • On Linux platforms, the help system searches the system path for Firefox. If the help system cannot find Firefox, an error is displayed.

    The browser_type and browser_path variables can be set in the environment file to modify this behavior. For more information, see System customization parameters.


In this section:

Displaying context-sensitive help
Browsing and searching the HTML guides
Finding special sections of the online documentation
Finding information about keywords
Accessing the Learning Community
Obtaining information about the release and licensing