When installing Arbortext IsoDraw the preferences are created in the PTC program directory. These preferences are available for all users that launch this program version. The PTC directory is created after the software is first launched. It contains the preferences files and user-specific files saved by the program.

If Arbortext IsoDraw does not have access to a user directory, the preferences in the program folder are used. This is especially important if Arbortext IsoDraw is installed on a server. In this case, you should install all DTDs, preferences files, templates, bitmap patterns, hatchings and Plug-ins which you want to make available to all users in the program directory.

Only the preferences of the individual user are saved in the PTC user directory. This is where you can archive templates or patterns that can only be accessed by this user.

During startup Arbortext IsoDraw reads the preferences from the user directory first and then the preferences from the program directory.