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We’ve seen your engagement with our learning and training tools, both here at the Design Studio Blog and via our LinkedIn channels.
So Autodesk Chief of Staff Blake Avery and I sat down with Randall Ellwood, Principal Content Developer, to talk about Alias Help. You can listen to the podcast here:
The Alias Help is your official information source for Alias. It includes tutorials, how-to, tool option descriptions and more.
You have several options for accessing the Alias Help:
If Google is your go-to way to get information, just type Alias 2023 Help in the search engine.
If you’re not connected to the Internet, we have a downloadable version of the Alias Help. Not all video content is available, but it otherwise contains all the same information.
Stay tuned: We will soon have the Alias 2023 Offline Help available for download.
Sometimes referred to as “career software,” Alias is a complex product that can do really amazing things. Regardless of your experience level, you’ll need some assistance from time to time.
Most of the content we create is intended to provide user-assistance while you are on task: these helps are designed to aid you while you are in a workflow, to get you from point a to point b.
Alias Help is designed to get support you in the tool whether you are a novice, intermediate or experienced user.
Check out the “Getting Started” help topics. These include
Note that these tutorials were not created in the most current versions of product, so things may look a little different, but the fundamentals in creating a good surface fillet haven’t really changed. Despite a few cosmetic differences, the tutorials are still as valid now as they were a few years ago.
The Alias Help really doesn’t distinguish between user-level. Content has been designed and created so that it’s approachable for you at any user level.
The Help topics are organized by three types of information:
For example, a conceptual topic for blend curves or curves-on surfaces describes what they are and when to use them in their workflows.
Task topics provide step-by-step info, such as how to build out a SubD model using the Retopo tool or how to create a SubD using the Reform too.
Tool reference provides detailed information for individual tools settings, like which settings on the Trim you use or adjust to trim with the COS.
The Alias Help is really a non-linear system designed to get you the information you need regardless of your entry point.
If you’re a designer who’s used other modeling software but are new to the Alias UI, we encourage you to go back to the basics: get comfortable with selection, moving objects and transformations.
Some of the most common differences if you’re new to the Alias UI:
We know that nothing is more frustrating for a user than not being able to do the simple tasks, but we also know that the power of Alias’s design and surfacing tools are worth the learning curve.
Perhaps the most important part of the Alias Help is its search functionality. We suggest that you access the Alias Help first and do your keyword searches within the system. This way you know that you are accessing the most up-to-date information source. Google can be helpful, but it may take you to an outdated version of the Alias Help.
We recommend you take the time to go through our What’s New sections. This way, you’ll learn about the new topics and improvements that have been added in the latest version, or the version of Alias you are using.
We create a What’s New for every new release while carrying over the What’s New information from previous releases. For example, in the Alias 2023 Help you can find information about features added in Alias 2020. So each new release comes with an updated version of the Alias Help, including Updates for subscribers.
All of the new and updated features are described in the What’s New, and from there you can find help topics on the new feature(s). Also, look for the orange New and Updated icons in the Help topics: they indicate new information about new and updated features for full releases.
The updated version of the Help is available publicly at the exact same time the software becomes available; they go live together within the same 30 min.
We also publish What’s New videos for every release on the Alias YouTube channel.
We want to hear from you!
At the bottom of every Help topic there is a “Was this Helpful?” button.
Click either Yes or No here and then you have the opportunity to add more detailed feedback.
Getting user feedback is a really important way for us to ensure we are delivering quality content. So, I highly recommend that you take a few minutes and tell us why a help topic did not address your needs.
Note that all of these learning destinations are accessible from the Alias Help Homepage under Community Learning Resources.
As more technologies become available, we hope to provide more content directly in the product.
This will allow you to stay in the software and on-task while you access user-assistance content right in the Alias UI, rather than having to switch focus to a web-browser.
As technology evolves, it’s easy to imagine a delivery mechanism that’s intelligent enough to know what you need and when – without being intrusive or distracting (we see you, Microsoft paperclip!).
Yes, there will be more learning content!
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