2.3 Using the GUI Help System

ANSYS FLUENT includes an integrated HTML-based online help system that provides easy access to the program documentation. Through the graphical user interface, you have the entire User's Guide and other documentation available to you with the click of a mouse button. The User's Guide and other manuals are displayed in your web browser, and you can use the hypertext links and the browser's search and navigation tools (as well as the additional navigation tools described in the separate Getting Started Guide) to find the information you need.

There are many ways to access the information contained in the online help. You can get reference information from within a task page, dialog box or (on UNIX machines) request context-sensitive help for a particular menu item or dialog box. You can also go to the User's Guide contents page or index, and use the hypertext links there to find the information you are looking for. In addition to the User's Guide, you can also access the other ANSYS FLUENT documentation (e.g., the Tutorial Guide or UDF Manual).

Note that the Reference Guide, which is the last chapter of the User's Guide in the online help, contains a description of each task page, menu item, and dialog box.

ANSYS FLUENT's help system is HTML based, so you need to have access to a web browser.

This section focuses on the Help menu in ANSYS FLUENT, and how you can use it (and the Help button in each task page and dialog box) to access the HTML-based online help from within ANSYS FLUENT. See the separate Getting Started Guide for more information about accessing the documentation outside of ANSYS FLUENT. The Getting Started Guide also provides additional information about navigating and finding information in the User's Guide (and other manuals), as well as guidelines for modifying the appearance of the HTML versions of the manuals.