Visual Styles Editor

Create visual style

Creates a new visual style based on the settings of the selected style. Allows you to specify a name and explanation for the new style.

It is recommended to create new visual styles rather than changing the settings of the predefined ones.

Delete visual style

Removes the selected visual style. Inbuilt styles and the current viewport style cannot be deleted.

Apply visual style

Applies the selected visual style to the current viewport. When you apply a visual style or change its settings, the corresponding viewport is automatically updated to reflect those changes. Any changes to the current visual style are saved in the drawing.

Rename visual style

Opens the dialog box for renaming the visual style or editing the description. Inbuilt styles cannot be renamed.

Reset to default

Resets the style parameter values to the default ones.

Delete predefined visual styles

Deletes standard visual styles.

Lighting model

Style of shading for faces, solid fills, and gradient hatches (VSFACESTYLE system variable):

·         Invisible. Faces seem to be hidden, there is no shading of faces and surfaces. Only the edges of faces are displayed. Used in the Wireframe visual style.

·         Constant. Uniform shading without transitions. Hidden line suppression makes invisible lines, edges, and other objects that are actually obscured by objects in the foreground. Used in the Hidden and Sketchy visual styles.

·         Realistic. Allows you to achieve a realistic shading effect.

·         Gooch. This shading method enhances detail by softening the contrast between highlights and shadows. Warm colors are used in lighted areas, cool colors are used in shaded areas.

Lighting quality

Determines the quality of lighting of object faces. Actually sets the color interpolation method for faces of 3D solids and surfaces in the current viewport (VSLIGHTINGQUALITY system variable).

No lighting – faces are not lighted. Depending on the value of the Color parameter, objects are colored in one color or another entirely.

Per face lighting – for each face, a specific color is calculated without transitions. Curved surfaces are displayed as a facet approximation.

Per vertex lighting – colors are calculated for the gradient transition between the vertices of the faces. The style provides a smooth display without the use of hardware acceleration.

Per pixel lighting – the highest smoothing quality.

Color mode

Specifies the display of colors on faces. (VSFACECOLORMODE system variable):

·         No color mode. Does not apply to the face color modifier.

·         Object color. Faces are displayed in different shades of the object's color.

·         Background color. Faces are displayed in different shades of the background color of the current space.

·         Mono. Faces are displayed in different shades of the color specified by the Mono color option.

·         Tint. Edges are shaded by changing the tine and saturation values based on the color specified by the Mono color option.

·         Desaturate. Edges are displayed in different shades of the object's color softened by reducing its saturation by 30%.

Mono color

Allows you to select a monochrome color or a color tint depending on the color mode of the face (VSMONOCOLOR system variable). The setting has an effect if the face color mode is set to Mono or Tint.

Use opacity

All objects are displayed semi-transparent. The degree of transparency is controlled by the Opacity % option.

Opacity %

The degree of opacity of objects: 0% - completely transparent, 100% - completely opaque. Only taken into account when the Use opacity box is checked.

Show materials

Enables the display of assigned materials.

Show textures

Enables the display of assigned textures.

Mode

Method to display edges of objects (VSEDGES system variable):

·         No edges. Do not display edges.

·         Isolines. Display by isolines.

·         Facet edges. Display by face edges.

Color

The color of edges. (VSEDGECOLOR system variable)

Show

Display object edges hidden by graphics (VSOCCLUDEDEDGES system variable).

Color

The color of overlapped edges (VSOCCLUDEDCOLOR system variable).

Pattern

The line type for displaying overlapped edges (VSOCCLUDEDLTYPE system variable).

Show

Display intersection edges of 3D objects (VSINTERSECTIONEDGES system variable). Can significantly slow down the work with large drawings.

Color

Color of intersection edges (VSINTERSECTIONCOLOR system variable).

Pattern

Line type of intersection edges (VSINTERSECTIONLTYPE system variable).

Show

Display silhouette edges of 3D objects. (VSSILHEDGES system variable).

Width

The width at which silhouette edges are displayed. (VSSILHWIDTH system variable).