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Maya Help
Your Maya software application comes installed with Maya technical
documentation that assists you in learning the Maya software. The Maya Help
is HTML-based, structured by module, fully searchable, and is displayed using
your computers web browser.
The Maya Help is topic based and displays the major functionality categories
for Maya. The Maya Help can assist you in finding reference information about
particular topics, how to perform specific tasks, and MELTM command
references.
To launch the Maya Help
1 Select Help > Maya Help.
The Maya Help appears in a separate web browser window (depending
on your user preference settings). The left hand pane of the Maya Help
lets you navigate to various Maya topics.
To obtain help on a particular Maya topic
1 In the Maya Help navigation pane, click the name of the Maya topic you
want information about (for example, Modeling, Animation, Dynamics,
MEL commands, and so on).
The Maya Help displays the associated sub-topics and categories associated
with the name you selected.
Maya Index and search
You can search the Maya Help directly using the index and search capabilities.
With these tools you find the Maya topic youre looking for by searching the
topic word in an alphabetic list or by directly typing the topic word(s) into
the search field and having the search tool find the documentation entries
associated with it.
To use the Maya Index
1 In Maya, select Help > Maya Help.
The Maya Help appears in a separate window (depending on your user
preferences). The Maya Index button appears at the top of the left
navigation pane.
2 Click the Index button.
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