4.5. Using Online Help

EnSight 2024 R2 provides several manuals online. The two you will use most often are:

How To

The Ansys EnSight How-To Manual consists of relatively short articles that describe how to perform a specific operation in EnSight, such as change the color of an object or create an isosurface. Step-by-step instructions and pictures of relevant dialogs are included. In addition, each Ansys EnSight How-To Manual article typically contains numerous hyperlinks (colored blue) to other related articles (and relevant sections of the Ansys EnSight User Manual).

User Manual

The Ansys EnSight User Manual provides a detailed reference for EnSight.

Several documents are directly accessible from the main Help menu. The remainder can be accessed through hyperlinks or a table of contents. Most of the complex dialogs within EnSight have help buttons that will open a corresponding Ansys EnSight How-To Manual article.

To open the Ansys EnSight How-To Manual, select HelpHow to manual....

To open the Ansys EnSight User Manual, select HelpUser manual....

You can open these files and print any or all pages from within a PDF reader.