The Help menu provides access to the 3ds Max online reference systems.
Welcome Screen—Displays the Welcome Screen dialog that opens by default when you first run 3ds Max.
User Reference—Displays the 3ds Max User Reference online.
Note: When you open the User Reference from the Help menu, you are actually opening an umbrella reference that contains entries for 3ds Max and reactor. You can access each of these references individually from the Windows Start menu, and in the \help directory of your 3ds Max installation.
MAXScript Reference—Displays the MAXScript Reference online. See About MAXScript.
Tutorials—Displays the online tutorials for 3ds Max.
Data Exchange Solutions—Opens your Web browser to a page about software for exchanging data among applications.
Subscription e-Learning Catalog—
Edit Subscription Center Profile—
Hotkey Map—Displays the Hotkey Map.
Additional Help—Displays a dialog that lets you choose to display the help for installed third-party plug-ins and for add-on products from Autodesk.
By default, this command looks for additional help files in the \help subdirectory. That location might have changed if you've edited plug-in path settings. See 3rd Party Plug-Ins Path Configuration.
3ds Max on the Web—Displays a submenu whose options display a Web page with additional information.
Activate 3ds Max—Starts the 3ds Max registration wizard, which lets you enter a new license authorization code. For example, you need to reauthorize 3ds Max if you're changing from a trial license to a permanent license.
You can also use this choice to borrow or return a license. For details, see the Autodesk License Borrowing Utility help, which is available as the file adsk_brw.chm, installed in the \program files\common files\autodesk shared\enu folder on your local drive (typically, drive C:).
About 3ds Max—Displays copyright and license information about your copy of 3ds Max.