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Access Methods
Button
Ribbon: View tab ➤ Visual Styles panel ➤ ➤ Visual Styles Manager
Menu: Tools ➤ Palettes ➤ Visual Styles
Toolbar: Visual Styles
Summary
Creates and modifies visual styles.
The Visual Styles Manager has a panel of sample images of the visual styles
available in the drawing, and the following properties panels:
■
Face settings on page 2053
■ Environment settings on page 2058
■ Edge settings on page 2058
■ Lighting settings on page 2060
NOTE Changes that you make in the Visual Style panel on the ribbon create a
temporary visual style, *Current,* that is applied to the current viewport. The
settings are not saved as a named visual style.
List of Options
The following options are displayed.
Available Visual Styles in Drawing
Displays sample images of the visual styles that are available in the drawing.
The face, environment, and edge settings of the selected visual style are
displayed in the settings panels.
Icons on the sample image indicate the status of the visual style:
■ The icon from the Apply Selected Visual Style to Current Viewport button
at center bottom indicates the visual style that is applied to the current
viewport.
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