Applying a User Profile

You can apply a user profile at any time. The defaults, preferences, and options contained within the profile will overwrite the existing values for those defaults, preferences and options, while leaving all others unchanged. Note that while general options take effect immediately, model options and display preferences only take effect when you create a new model.

Note: To return to a default user profile prepared for you by an administrator(see Controlling Defaults for Options and Preferences), select the General Preferences entry in the Personal Profiles category. To return to your default UI profile, select the UI Preferences entry.
  1. Select Tools > Apply User Profile to open the Apply User Profile dialog:


  2. [optional] Click the Change User Profile Directory button, and browse to a folder where you have saved user profiles. By default they are saved in the install_dir/Resource Files/Profiles directory.
  3. Select a profile from the list and click OK.

    The user profile is applied, and overwrites the defaults, preferences, and options contained within it with the values it defines.

Parent topic: User Profiles