There are many ways to get help with Mechanical Expressions.
Your installation comes with documentation in PDF format suitable for creating a hard copy. Find these in the Doc subdirectory in your Mx installation:
- Solving Mechanics Problems with Mechanical Expressions - a detailed explanation of the basic concepts.
- Mechanical Expressions Tutorials - step by step instructions.
- Mechanical Expressions Examples - several examples chosen to illustrate the power and features of the software.
- Mechanical Expressions Manual - a copy of the embedded Help system.
- Working with Maple - how to use Mechanical Expressions from Maple.
- Working with Mathematica - how to copy from Mechanical Expressions to Mathematica and vice versa.
- Using Mechanical Expressions with Matlab - how to copy and paste symbolic expressions or Matlab source code into Matlab.
In both the PDF manual document and the embedded Help system you can:
- Use the table of contents to get details on using a tool, an icon or a menu.
- Use the index for help on a particular topic, such as "parametric equations".
Inside the Mechanical Expressions Help system you can:
- Use the Search tool to find all topics based on a key word, such as "constraints".
- Browse through help with the up - "Previous page", and down - "Next Page" arrows
. This will step you through the help subtopics in a logical sequence. - You can click on colored text which links you to more information.
Tool Tips:
When you move the cursor over any icon on the screen, the name of the icon appears briefly below the cursor.