About Visual Styles

Visual styles let you control the appearance of entities in the drawing. Choosing a suitable visual style helps you visualize your drawing more clearly.

Visual styles control:

• Faces and edges representation
• Background
• Shadows
• Lights
• Opacity

The following predefined visual styles are available:

• 2DWireframe
• Conceptual
• Hidden
• Realistic
• Shaded
• Shaded with Edges
• Shades of Gray
• Sketchy
• Wireframe
• X-Ray

Predefined visual styles are available on the ribbon, on a dedicated flyout. Additionally, you can find them on the Visual Styles Manager palette.

The Visual Styles Manager palette displays all available visual styles. You can select a predefined visual style or define a new one. For each visual style you can display the properties.

Use the VisualStyles command to display the Visual Styles Manager palette.

From the Visual Styles Manager palette, you can do the following:

• Create new visual styles
• Delete visual styles
• Modify existing visual styles

Note: You cannot delete predefined visual styles.

The basic workflow for working with custom visual styles includes the following steps:

1. Create a new visual style.

   On the Visual Styles Manager palette, click New Visual Style.

2. Make the necessary settings.

   Specify properties, such as faces and edges representations, backgrounds, shadows, and lights.

3. Apply the visual style.

   The new visual style is available on the Visual Styles Manager palette. You can use it for the current viewport.