417 Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. Learning Objectives After completing this chapter, you will be able to: ✓ Control the display of solid models. ✓ Describe the Visual Styles Manager palette. ✓ Change the settings for visual styles. ✓ Create custom visual styles. ✓ Export visual styles to a tool palette. ✓ Render a scene using sunlight. ✓ Save a rendered image from the Render window. There are many options available in AutoCAD for controlling the display of models. These settings help with your visualization while you are working on a model and may also impact printed output. In Chapter 1, you were introduced to the default visual styles. In this chapter, you will learn about all visual style settings and how to redefi ne the visual style. You will also learn how to create your own visual style. Finally, this chapter provides an introduction to lights and rendering. Controlling Solid Model Display Controlling Solid Model Display AutoCAD solid models can be displayed in wireframe form, with hidden lines removed, or in shaded form by using a shaded visual style. The 2D Wireframe visual style is the default display when a drawing is started based on the acad.dwt template. Wireframe displays are the quickest to display. When a drawing is started based on the acad3D.dwt or acadiso3D.dwt template, the default display is the Realistic visual style, which is a shaded display. The following sections introduce display options available in wireframe, hidden, and shaded displays. Visual Style Settings and Basic Rendering CHAPTER 16 16