About the Help Center
This topic provides guidance on using PTC help centers.
Browser Support
The help center opens in your default browser.
Help Center Toolbar
Use these toolbar icons to navigate the contents of the help center.
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Description
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Home
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Open the home page.
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Contents
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Open or close the table of contents.
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Previous
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Open the topic that appears above the current topic in the table of contents.
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Next
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Open the topic that appears below the current topic in the table of contents.
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Search
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Search for a term or concept in the help center.
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Help Topic
Each help topic contains the following additional elements.
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Icon or Element
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Location
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Description
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Breadcrumb
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Top of the page
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View the hierarchical path to the topic within the table of contents. Click a link in the path to open another topic.
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Print
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Top-right of the page
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Print the current topic.
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Send feedback
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Top-right of the page
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Send an email to the PTC Documentation team with your comments about the current topic.
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Back to top
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Bottom-right of the page
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Return to the top of the current topic.
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Was this helpful?
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End of the topic content
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Specify whether the topic was helpful.
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Help Center Search
The search tool is located on the help center toolbar.
To use the search feature, perform the following steps:
1. Enter your query and click Search 
. The Search page shows the search results, highlighting the exact matches.
. The Search page shows the search results, highlighting the exact matches.2. Click the topic title in the list to open that topic. The exact matches are highlighted in the topic.
3. To return to the search results, click 
again.
again.The following search rules apply:
Search Technique | Description |
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Implicit Boolean AND | All search words and phrases have an implicit AND. For example, search for release notes to find all help topics containing release and notes. |
Exact phrase | To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotation marks. For example, search for "release notes" to find all help topics containing the exact phrase release notes. |
Wildcard | All search words have an implicit wildcard. For example, search for extr to find all help topics containing any term that starts with extr, such as extrude and extra. |
Feedback to PTC
To send feedback to PTC about the topic you are viewing, click Send feedback at the top-right corner of any topic. You can also send an email to [email protected].
at the top-right corner of any topic. You can also send an email to [email protected].Include the following information in your message:
• Name
• Company
• Product
• Product release
• Help topic title
• Level of expertise in the product (beginner, intermediate, advanced)
• Comments