CATIA V5 - How to use the Free Help System

Many underestimate the amount of tutorials available in the CATIA V5 help. In this demo, the user learns how to maximize the use of the help documentation built right into the software. This way you don't need to buy a book every time you need assistance with a certain topic.
Also, To view a complete demo of CATIA from start to finish in less than 15 mins. see the following video.

For more in-depth videos, please visit my blog:

[mtmCAD]

make sure of this:
goto Tools menu>Options
on the tree select General. Then click on the Help tab page. under technical documentation, browse to the location where you have the help files and select the english folder from there.

- now try hitting F1. it should work.

let me know if that works for you.

[mtmCAD]

If you're referring to the online help docs, it will ship with CATIA V5. there used to be this website
that had it online but it doesn't seem to work anymore.