Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. Chapter 16 Visual Style Settings and Basic Rendering 421 Overview of the Visual Styles Overview of the Visual Styles Manager Manager The Visual Styles Manager palette provides access to all of the visual style settings. This palette is a fl oating window similar to the Properties palette. See Figure 16-5. Changes made in the Visual Styles Manager redefi ne the visual style in the current drawing. At the top of the Visual Styles Manager are image tiles for the defi ned visual styles. See Figure 16-6. The default visual styles are 2D Wireframe, Conceptual, Hidden, Realistic, Shaded, Shaded with Edges, Shades of Gray, Sketchy, Wireframe, and X-Ray. User-defi ned visual styles also appear as image tiles. The image on the tile is a preview of the visual style settings. Selecting an image tile provides access to the properties of the visual style in the palette below. The name of the currently selected visual style appears below the image tiles and the corresponding image tile is surrounded by a yellow border. To set a different visual style current using the Visual Styles Manager, double- click on the image tile. You can also select the image tile and pick the Apply Selected Visual Style to Current Viewport button immediately below the image tiles. An icon consisting of a small image of the button is displayed in the image tile of the visual style that is current in the active viewport, as shown in Figure 16-6. A drawing icon appears in the image tile if the visual style is current in a viewport that is not active. The AutoCAD icon appears in the image tiles of the default visual styles. You can also set a different visual style current by selecting the style from the Visual Style Controls fl yout in the viewport controls located in the upper-left corner of the drawing window. See Figure 16-7. Selecting Visual Styles Manager… in the Visual Style Controls fl yout opens the Visual Styles Manager. VISUALSTYLES Ribbon Visualize Visual Styles Visual Style Manager… Type VISUALSTYLES VSM Figure 16-5. The Visual Styles Manager palette. Category Image tiles Properties Settings Subcategory