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STAR-CCM+ will launch an HTML browser at the title page of the online Help. You can alsojump directly to other parts of the online Help using the same menu:???

New FeaturesTutorial GuideWizard Guide

The Help system is based entirely on JavaScript and displays help topics with the framesetview, which divides the browser window into three areas:???

A navigation frame on the left that displays the Contents tab (with a Table of Contentspane) and the Search tab

A toolbar frame across the top that displays a set of buttons to navigate around the Helpsystem

A topic frame on the right to display the actual Help topics included in the Help system

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This view gives the most control and is used to display Help requested from the Help menu. Itwill also display if you open $STAR_HOME/doc/online/index.html directly into yourbrowser.

You can also read useful information about:????

The navigation frameThe toolbar frameChanging the default browserTypographic conventions used in this documentation

Accessing Context Sensitive Help

You can jump directly to help topics that relate to specific objects in the simulation tree bypressing while the object is selected.

For example, you could press on the Realizable K-Epsilon Two-Layer model nodewithin the Models manager of a physics continuum.

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This will launch a browser showing the Help system open at the location of the documentationfor the Realizable K-Epsilon Two-Layer model.

Using the Navigation Frame

By default, the navigation frame displays two tabs:??

ContentsSearchThese tabs provide the core navigational features in the Help system.

In addition, you can make the best use of space by resizing.

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Contents:

Navigating ContentsSearching the Help SystemResizing the Navigation FrameNavigating ContentsThe Contents tab displays the table of contents in the form of an expandable/collapsible treeview.

Closed book icons represent TOC entries that have subentries. Click a closed book to open itand see its contents. When you expand a book, the closed book icon is replaced by an openbook icon. You can click the book again to close it. The page icons represent individual Helptopics. Click a page icon or the tree text to display the contents of that page in the Contentspane. Clicking the text of an element with subentries will open the folder and display theselected page.

Searching the Help SystemUsing the Search tab, you can search the full text of the Help system.

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Type the word or phrase to search for, and then press or click Go. The search is caseinsensitive, and by default searches on whole words. So searching for “lin” would not find“Linux”. Use an asterisk to perform partial word searches, so for example, use “lin*” to find“Linux” as well as all other words beginning with “lin”.

The Search tab displays a list of all the topics in the Help system that contain the word orphrase you entered. If you search for multiple words, the search finds Help topics that containall the words you entered. The topics found are ranked in order of relevance. The higher theranking, the more likely the topic includes the word or phrase you searched for.

When you click one of the topics found by search, the page is loaded into the topic frame. Ifyou are using Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows, each occurrence of the search term(s)is/are highlighted as shown in the following screenshot. (The search highlighting feature doesnot work in other browser environments.)

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