CUSTOMTOOLS Documentation

CUSTOMTOOLS has a context sensitive help system with several different ways to access it. Also, CUSTOMTOOLS have a wide documentation available about the API, product enhancements and the new features presented in the CUSTOMTOOLS versions. This help page describes the ways how you can access the CUSTOMTOOLS Help system and the different documentations.

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F1 key	Press the F1 key to open CUSTOMTOOLS help.
Help buttons	Open CUSTOMTOOLS help by clicking the help button. The following kind of help buttons are in use in the CUSTOMTOOLS user interface.

		Basic command button type of the Help button. This button type is frequently used, for example in the CUSTOMTOOLS Options dialog box.
		This type of a button appear in title bar of the dialog box using Windows 7 or newer Windows operating system.
		This type of a button is used in the different left side panes of CUSTOMTOOLS.
		This type of a button is used on the CUSTOMTOOLS Search pane in SOLIDWORKS add-in and CUSTOMTOOLS Viewer. Also the floating Properties pane uses this kind of Help button. The floating Properties pane appear when saving the document by the first time using the SOLIDWORKS Save command.
		This type of the Help button is used in the top right corner of the CUSTOMTOOLS Administration and CUSTOMTOOLS Viewer window next to the Manage CUSTOMTOOLS Licenses command icon.

The Release notes and What's new documentations are shipped with all CUSTOMTOOLS major version and service pack releases in Adobe PDF (*.pdf) format. PDF documents included in CUSTOMTOOLS are located in the \lang\english folder in your CUSTOMTOOLS installation directory.

For example, in the CUSTOMTOOLS 2023 version installed in the default target path, the CUSTOMTOOLS PDF documentation is located in the following path:
C:\Program Files\ATR Soft Oy\CUSTOMTOOLS 2023\lang\english

NOTE: New versions of the CUSTOMTOOLS PDF documentation is not included in the hotfixes or service pack specific update packages.

The CUSTOMTOOLS API documentation provides information and instructions in relation to the CUSTOMTOOLS API (Application Programming Interface). The CUSTOMTOOLS API documentation is available as offline version in association to the SOLIDWORKS Add-in and, as online version in the CUSTOMTOOLS online documentation.

To open the offline version of the CUSTOMTOOLS API documentation, in SOLIDWORKS click Help, CUSTOMTOOLS API Help. The CUSTOMTOOLS API Help window appears.

To see the CUSTOMTOOLS API online documentation, open the following hyperlink:
CUSTOMTOOLS API Online Documentation

CUSTOMTOOLS Documentation

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