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 ## Usage
 
-To see and run examples, navigate to `./python/fastsim/demos` and run the various *demo.py files to see fastsim use cases. There are other examples in fastsim/tests.  
+To see and run examples, download the FASTSim demo files using the following code (with your Python environment activated and FASTSim installed):
+```python
+from fastsim import utils  
+utils.copy_demo_files()
+```
+This code downloads demo files into a specified local directory (if no directory is specified, it will create a `\demos` folder in the current working directory). WARNING: If you download the demo files to a location where files of the same name already exist, the original files will be overwritten.  
 
 ## Adding FASTSim as a Dependency in Rust