Profiles

Throughout the book I make reference to the Options dialog box. This is the place where you make both drawing-specific and system-wide settings so you can configure the program to work the way that you want. In the full version of AutoCAD, you can save these settings as named profiles, and switch between them on the Profiles tab of the Options dialog box. For example, you can have one profile with a white drawing background, and another with a dark background. Or you can have different profiles that point to different client support files. If more than one person shares a computer, each person can have his or her own profile.

Only in the full version, though — there is no Profiles tab in AutoCAD LT's Options dialog box, because AutoCAD LT does not support profiles. Any changes you make to LT's options become the current defaults, but they can't be saved and restored later.