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Use a Visual Style to Display Your Model
Concept Procedure Quick Reference
 
 
 

To apply a visual style to a viewport

  1. Click Tools menu Palettes Visual Styles.
  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.

     Toolbar: Visual Styles 
     Shortcut menu: Right-click the visual style in the Visual Styles Manager. Click Apply to Current Viewport.
     Command entry: VISUALSTYLES
     Dashboard: Visual Style panel, Visual Styles Manager