Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. Chapter 16 Visual Style Settings and Basic Rendering 433 Plotting Visual Styles Plotting Visual Styles A visual style not only affects the on-screen display, it also affects plots. To plot objects with a specifi c visual style, use the following guidelines. Plotting a Visual Style from Model Space Open the Plot dialog box and expand it by picking the More Options ( ) button. Then, select the desired display from the Shade plot drop-down list in the Shaded viewport options area. If the desired visual style is current in the viewport, you can also select As displayed from the drop-down list. Finally, plot the drawing. Plotting a Visual Style from Layout (Paper) Space When plotting from layout (paper) space, the shade plot properties of the view- ports govern how the viewport is plotted. The viewports can be set to plot visual styles in three different ways. In the fi rst method, select the viewport in layout space and right-click to display the shortcut menu. Pick Shade plot to display the cascading menu. Then, select the appropriate visual style. In the second method, use the Properties palette to set the Shade plot property of the viewport. To do this, select the viewport in layout space and open the Properties palette. Pick the Shade plot property in the Misc category and change the setting to the desired option. The Shade plot property is also available in the Quick Properties palette. In the third method, use the Visual styles suboption of the Shadeplot option of the MVIEW command. When prompted to select objects, pick the border of the viewport. Do not pick the objects in the viewport. NOTE NOTE The visual style of the viewport may also be selected when you use the VPORTS command to create a viewport confi guration in the Viewports dialog box. Select the viewport in the Preview area of the dialog box. Then, pick the visual style desired from the Visual Style: drop-down list at the bottom of the dialog box. The VPORTS command can be used in model space or layout (paper) space. Introduction to Rendering Introduction to Rendering Visual styles provide a way to plot your 3D scene to paper or a fi le, but control over the appearance is limited to the visual style settings. In Chapter 1, you were briefl y introduced to the RENDER command. The RENDER command allows you to create photorealistic images with complete control over the scene. In this chapter, you will be introduced to AutoCAD’s rendering and lighting tools. Materials, lights, and more advanced rendering features are discussed in later chapters. When you render a scene, you are making a realistic image of your design that can be printed, displayed on a web page, or used in a presentation. To create an attrac- tive rendering, you have to fi gure out what view you want to display, where the lights should be placed, what types of materials need to be applied to the 3D objects, and the kind of output that is needed. This section shows you how to create a quick rendering of your scene. RENDER Ribbon Visualize Render Render to Size Type RENDER RR