Help Menu
The Help menu displays different selections depending upon the type of design inserted to the active project (such as Twin Builder, HFSS). The following describes the basic selections displayed in the Help menu.
Ansys Electronics Desktop Student includes access to PDF documentation only.
- Twin Builder Help opens to the product help within the Electronics help system. You can also access PDF versions from within the help system.
- Twin Builder Scripting Help opens to the product's scripting help.
- Twin Builder Getting Started Guides opens to a list of links to the product's Getting Started Guides. These Getting Started Guides walk you through projects that demonstrate features of the product solvers.
- Twin Builder PDFs provides access to PDFs for Twin Builder, including the main help, scripting guide, and Getting Started Guides.
- Twin Builder Components is enabled when you insert a design to the active project, and opens the Twin Builder Components help to a section that pertains to the component type.
- Ansys Customer Support opens a browser page to the Ansys Customer Portal. At the website you can learn more about Ansys products and services and log on to contact Ansys technical support staff.
- What’s New in this Release opens a PDF that describes What’s New in Ansys Electronics Desktop for the release.
- Ansys Product Improvement Program opens a dialog box that describes the Product Improvement Program option.
- About Ansys Electronics Desktop opens a dialog box that displays the Ansys® Electromagnetics Suite release number and contains tabs that show information about the Installed Components and Client License Settings.
You can disable the Ansys Product Improvement Program so you are not prompted to enable the Program when you first start Electronics Desktop. To do this, after installing the software, run this command as a user with permissions to modify the installed fileset:
UpdateRegistry.exe -set -ProductName ElectronicsDesktop2024.2 -RegistryKey Desktop/Settings/ProjectOptions/ProductImprovementOptStatus -RegistryLevel install -RegistryValue 1
F1 Context-Sensitive Help
To access F1 help from the Ansys Electronics Desktop user interface, do one of the following:
- To open a help topic about a menu option, hover the cursor over the item and press F1.
- To open a help topic about a dialog box, open the dialog box and press F1.