The location of the Help directory containing the online help files .
Default (Windows): C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Alias[version no.]\Help
When installing Alias you will have to choose where to install the online Help documentation. You have the option to install it locally or on a web server. This involves updating the ALIAS_ALT_HELP variable. To accomplish this complete the following steps:
Sets your system to automatically invoke a particular Alias product. Use this variable only if you understand licensing and are sure you don’t want access to any other products.
Parameters: as (Automotive), ss (Surface), ds (Design)
To disable this variable for Mac:
To disable this variable for Windows:
Location of Alias Preference files.
Default (Windows Vista and Windows 7): C:\Users\[userid]\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Alias\UserPrefs [version no.]
Default (Windows XP): C:\Documents and Settings\[userid]\Application Data\Autodesk\Alias\UserPrefs [version no.]
The preferences files can be set to something other than the default, which is useful if:
The location that becomes the current working directory on execution of Alias (that is, the directory above the user_data directory that the user wishes to use with Alias).
Parameters: a valid path to a directory
Default (Windows Vista and Windows 7): C:\Users\[userid]\My Documents
Default (Windows NT): C:\Documents and Settings\[userid]\My Documents