Using Help

General

  • The instructions are delivered with the program installation package and can be opened from within the program.
  • Help uses the relative font. You can increase and decrease the font size of the instructions by holding down the Ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel.
  • The instructions are only provided in the language of the installation package.
  • If necessary, you can also ask the supplier for mec_help.chm manual in another language and place it in the user’s Vertex home directory (vxg4/user).
    • The program primarily opens the help (mec_help.chm) in the user folder.
  • You can also find the instructions on the page https://kb.vertex.fi/ under Vertex CAD user manuals.
  • The Help menu also contains subsections, some of which direct to www pages, in which case you must have access to the internet.
  • Some instructions open a PDF file, so you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free and can be downloaded from www.adobe.fi or www.adobe.com.

Open and Use Help

  1. Open Help
    • Click on the function in the upper right corner of the work window > User Guide (F1) or
    • press the F1 key.
    • The program opens the help in a separate window.
  2. If necessary, edit the help window.
    • You can move the window to a different screen if you use two or more monitors.
    • You can stretch the window by dragging it from the corner of the window or the edge of the window.
    • You can increase and decrease the font size of the instructions by holding down the Ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel.
  3. There are three ways to view the Help
    • On the Contents page, you can browse the tree-like hierarchy of Help.
    • On the Index page, you can find search terms that you can click to open Help.
      • Search terms are automatically sorted in alphanumeric order.
    • On the Search page, you can enter a string, preferably the name of the command displayed in the Vertex G4 user interface, and press Enter to list the instructions where that string is found.
      • Click Title to arrange the found instructions in alphabetical order according to their title.