Downloading and installing a pattern archive

To use a user-defined pattern, download and install the pattern archive for the user-defined pattern.

Before you begin

Before you can complete this task, you must decide which user-defined pattern you want to use from a pattern community site.

About this task

Before you can update a pattern archive to a newer version of an installed pattern archive, you must uninstall the current version of the pattern archive, see Uninstalling a pattern archive.

When you have chosen a user-defined pattern that you want to use from a pattern community site, download and install the pattern archive for that user-defined pattern to your local system by using one of the following methods:

What to do next

You can now use the user-defined pattern in your projects, see Using patterns.