Choose this menu item to go to the home page for installed documentation for this release of Alias. The preference for the location of this page is available to be set or changed under Preferences > General Preferences
in the System section as Help Location.
Alias documentation can be used either as files installed locally on your hardware, on an intranet, or it can be accessed from http://www.autodesk.com/alias2012-docs.
Documentation should be installed as part of the software installation. If it has not been installed, insert the Alias DVD into your drive, and follow the product installation instructions to install it.
Documentation in languages other than English is provided on a separate DVD. To install this documentation, use the documentation installer or unzip the files into a location where you want the help system to be accessed.
If the documentation installer is used, you need to link the documentation to Alias by typing the pathname (without the terminal slash) in Preferences > General Preferences, under the System tab.
If installing the Help system locally on the user’s file system, the pathname must be prefixed by file:/// for example,
file:///C:/Program Files/Alias/Alias 2012/Help
If installing the Help system on an intranet, the pathname must be prefixed by http:// for example,
http://local.intranet/Alias2012/Help
If the user will be accessing the Help system from Autodesk’s web, the pathname should be set to
http://www.autodesk.com/alias2012-docs
IE Settings for Windows XP SP2
To run the new Autodesk Alias help system, computers that have been updated with XP Service Pack 2 need to have some settings changed.
Changes to default security settings are made when an upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 2 is performed. These changes can result in unexpected popup messages requiring you to explicitly allow the help system to be viewed.
When you first open the online help system, you’ll get the following message:
To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer.
You can then click for the option to Allow Blocked Content. If this is done, you’ll receive a Security Warning that says:
Allowing active content such as script and ActiveX controls can be useful, but active content might also harm your computer. Are you sure you want to let this file run active content?
To allow this content to run without getting blocked, please follow the following steps: