Help with Help files !!

We often tend to look up help of software for information that either isn’t intuitive or we are confused about. But more often than not we have to access the software itself to get to the help menu.  Wouldn’t it be nice to have help at your beck and call as it should be.

You can have the help menu show up in Start \ All Programs menu \ SolidWorks 2009 \ Help \

 

To do this

1.     browse to C:\Documents and Settings\” user name on machine ”\Start Menu\Programs\

2.      Right click and create a new folder called “Help”

3.     In this folder create a shortcut to the help file (*.chm file) for Solid Works Help. This is usually where the software is installed. C:\ProgramFiles\SolidWorks\SolidWorks\lang\english\sldworks.chm

4.     Similarly create shortcuts to all the help files you might want in there.

 Eg COSMOS works  C:\Program Files\SolidWorks\COSMOSWorks\Help\cworks.chm

 

Now you can drag and drop the Help menu created in the Program files menu under SolidWorks folder.

Machine specifications

Many a times users need to know their machine specifications in a quick and easy manner. If you hit windows button on the keyboard+ Pause key; machines System Properties of coming up.  The other method to bring this up is right click on My Computer and click on properties. 

Rajat Trehan

Product Manager – Design Validation

Computer Aided Technology Inc.