Geometric is a specialist in providing PLM solutions to the global mechanical design, manufacturing and industrial markets.

HTML Help Files with style sheet. GeomCaliperTM is a software product developed and marketed by Geometric. GeomCaliperTM is an innovative tool that facilitates measurement and checking of thickness on CAD models. GeomCaliperTM enables acceleration of the design review process for manufacturability. We developed Online Help Files for GeomCaliperTM.

Dreamweaver 4.0 and Java

Help Files are developed as .hlp or .chm format and linked with the software application. For Geometric we had to develop the help files in HTML format using Dreamweaver.

Due to frequent change in the User Interface and logical flow of the product, our team had to implement the changes during the process. The index provided for the help system was to be in a tree structure, which the plain HTML files could not handle.

Since Technowrites writers are trained on various tools, we had capability to work with Dreamweaver and Java. The tree structure was later constructed using Java with continuous feedback from the Geometric team.

	The help system was developed using Dreamweaver and the output was kept as plain HTML files. This was designed with a vision of using these files through any browser-based technology.
	This design enabled the help system to be effectively and efficiently customized for: ›› Both standalone and Catia based versions ›› Developing Multilingual help system
	The Table of Contents for the online help was designed as a tree structure, to maintain a hierarchy in the Headings. This was done using Java.