Choosing a help system

When you access help in QY CAD, the Overivew of QY CAD Help website is displayed. It provides access to the following materials:

Access to recommended learning paths, tutorials, activities, and videos.
Content that is searchable across the collection of help material.
Direct links between help topics, tutorials, activities, and videos.
Administration and installation guides, in Adobe PDF format.

Note:

Web help is not available in some QY CAD applications. When you access user assistance in a QY CAD application such as Standard Parts, Microsoft HTML Help (files with a .chm extension) is displayed.

For customers who do not have access to the internet or do not want to use the UDS-hosted website to access help, you can instead host web help on an internal server. For more information, see Using a local help server.

Web help versus locally installed help

QY CAD provides two ways to access QY CAD 2022 Help:

Internet (Support Center)

UDS Support Center website—This is the default source when you access QY CAD 2022 Help from the product. This is the web-served HTML help that you view in an internet web browser.

Online help for all UDS software is available on Support Center:

https://www.plm.automation.UDS.com/locale/docs/

Local Network

UDS PLM Documentation Server web server application—By installing the UDS PLM Documentation Server, you can host online help for QY CAD and other UDS Digital Industries Software products on your local host or intranet. This installs the HTML help collection on an internal server or a standalone computer. It provides the same content and is also displayed in a web browser.

When deployed on your local intranet, the UDS PLM Documentation Server can host online help for multiple languages and multiple UDS Digital Industries Software products. It provides a fast, powerful, server-based search engine.

To use this option, you must install the UDS PLM Documentation Server and the QY CAD help, which are installations separate from the installation of QY CAD. For more information, see Using a local help server.

Changing help systems

An option on the Helpers tab of the QY CAD Options dialog box—Access help from my server (requires you to set up a help server)—controls which source is used to display the help content. If you do not have user privileges to access the public internet, and if your company provides access to locally installed help, then selecting this check box and entering the URL of the local server displays help using the internal help source. You do not have to exit QY CAD for the change to take effect.

For more information, see the help topic, Change to local help.

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Change to web help