Application options control your global preferences for appearance, behaviors, and file locations; document settings control individual files.
You import application options during installation of your product. Upon import the current user preferences are modified.
You can modify options at any time using the Application Options dialog. Changes made to Application Options that are visible in the UI and that can be exported or imported via XML, are written to and read from a file named UserApplicationOptions.xml. The remainder are written to the registry.
Because these Application Options are stored in an .xml file you can easily move your personal options settings between computers. It is also easier to migrate the options when you upgrade your application. CAD managers can use the .xml file to deploy a consistent set of user preferences for all users or specific groups.
Two .xml files contain the default application options that you can import reside within the registry:
If you import a set of default application options to switch the default option set after your initial setup, only the settings that differ between the two are changed. The import process does not alter any other Application Options settings that you have changed.
You can import a partial list of Application Options settings as long as the .xml file is valid. In a partial list, the excluded settings retain their current values.
You can set application options and export them to an .xml file without applying them to the current session. Then, use that file to generate new user preferences.
The Import and Export buttons display at the bottom of all tabs in the dialog box.
Any document can display independently from the application settings. Set document parameters such as active styles, units of measure, and sketch and modeling preferences, and in the Application Options dialog, select Use Document Settings.
Document settings are stored in the document. To apply the settings to new documents automatically, change the settings in the templates that you use to create documents.