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In shaded visual styles, faces are lit by two distant light sources that follow
the viewpoint as you move around the model. This default lighting is designed
to illuminate all faces in the model so that they are visually discernable. Default
lighting is available only when other lights, including the sun, are off.
Select a visual style and change its settings at any time. The changes are
reflected in the viewports to which the visual style is applied. Any changes
you make to the current visual style are saved in the drawing.
For more information about face settings, environment settings, and edge
settings, see Customize a Visual Style on page 299.
To save a visual style in the drawing
At the Command prompt, enter vssave.
To apply a visual style to a viewport
1 Click View tab Visual Styles panel
Visual Styles Manager.
2 Click in the viewport to make it current.
3 In the Visual Styles Manager, double-click the sample image of the visual
style.
The selected visual style is applied to the model in the viewport.
An icon in the sample image indicates that the visual style is in use in
the current viewport. When you change viewports, the icon changes to
indicate that the visual style is in use in the current drawing.
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