Is there really no PDF for the user-guide and the release notes and the known bugs anymore?

The wiki looks like crap and gives me many error codes - I guess Firefox 4 has some display problems or the database doesn’t work…

What is so bad to hand out a well structured pdf?
Where you can easily find some reference information?

Please!

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

I am sorry to hear you are having problems with the wiki.

What kind of error codes are you getting? FF is supported; we use that almost exclusively internally.

As far as the look of it, what are finding problematic?

Thanks,
Kandis

I’ll miss the pdf option.  Always had it up and searches found what I wanted right away.  The new wiki site is quite sluggish and its not nearly as convenient as the pdf would have been.
I’m all for trying new things and I’m intrigued with the wiki site… but the pdf manual should have stayed as an option.  It will be missed.

James

Not against trying the wiki, but is there any way peeps have figured out to load onto an ipad?  I work at a bunch of facilities and i’ve found having the manuals on the ipad to be an indispensible resource.

Cheers-
Andy D.

I’m sorry to say, I really do not like the Wiki html format.  PDF was far better.  I miss being able to mousewheel scroll through pages quickly, I miss the visual look, I miss the speed, and I miss the more plentiful graphics/screenshots. 

I am actually going to continue to use the 2011 PDF file and only resort to this wiki when it’s something that is 2012 specific. Not a good sign…

I think this was a step backwards, at least when it comes to the interface.  There should at least be a PDF file available as an option.

agreed having a PDF manual has so many advantages, seems strange not to offer both.

Autodesk?  Can we get a PDF file as an option at least? 

I’ve been on the box since 1996 and up until now the documentation was always at least progressing in the right direction, 2011 being the best yet.  Hate to see it become a frustrating and less useful tool…

I too was disappointed in seeing a wiki help manual, instead of the old reliable easy to search and view pdf file.  Hopefully you will bring that back!

Ok.  Another useful thing that I can’t seem to find in the wiki, is a simple chart of all the hotkeys, both flame and smoke.
Sometimes I’d rather browse the hotkey ref than search a wiki.
Any insight?

Thx.
Andy D.

Hi Andy,

For hotkeys, within Smoke or Flame, you can get the most up-to-date information in the Hotkey Editor. Press Ctrl+Alt+F8.
What is nice about this method, is that depending on which module you access the Hotkey Editor from, you’ll see the different local, shared, and global hotkeys specific to that module in the Hotkey Catalogue list (it is also searchable).

Thanks, Bryan
Flame/Smoke Doc Team

I recently finally sat down with the hot key editor & scrolled through one by one—I actually learned a whole lot from it & am faster now.  The interface is a little frustrating though—such as trying to ‘sort’ by hotkey name or function doesn’t work the way you would expect.  Still, glad to have it, thanks