Help and Documentation

1.2 Help and Documentation

In an effort to provide you with the best application support in the industry, OpenSTAAD documentation is provided electronically in the form of HTML help files. This important decision was made to provide a method of quickly updating users with the latest program additions or modifications. Since this information is provided electronically, users can simply download the latest help files from our web site, without the delay to update and reprint hard copy documentation.

1.2.1 OpenSTAAD Help Organization

The OpenSTAAD documentation is organized in the following manner:

Getting Started
Fundamentals
Using Macros
OpenSTAAD Application Objects
Troubleshooting
Examples

1.2.2 Printing Help and Documentation Files

Topics in the OpenSTAAD help system may be printed when they are opened in the Help Viewer application. To print a topic:

Select the topic you wish to print from the Table of Contents.
Click the Print tool.

or

Press Ctrl+P.