Creates and modifies visual styles and applies a visual style to a viewport.
The Visual Styles Manager is displayed.
If you enter -visualstyles at the Command prompt, options are displayed.
A visual style is a collection of customizable settings that control the display of edges, shading, background, and shadows of 3D solids and surfaces in the current viewport.
The Wireframe, Realistic, and Shaded visual styles provide enhanced 3D performance for pan, zoom, and orbit operations. Enhanced performance is also available for custom visual styles that use the following settings:
| When VSFACESTYLE is set to 1 or 2 . . . | System Variable and Setting |
| Shadows must be turned off | VSSHADOWS 0 |
| 3D halo gap must be set to 0 | VSHALOGAP 0 |
| Silhouette edges must be turned off | VSSILHEDGES 0 |
| Intersection edges must be turned off | VSINTERSECTIONEDGES 0 |
| Facet edge style must be set to standard edges | VSEDGEJITTER 0 or less |
| Transparency must be turned off for both individual objects and globally | VSFACEOPACITY 100 |
| Obscured (hidden) facet edges must be turned off | VSOBSCUREDEDGES 0 |
| Facet edge color must be set to "ByEntity" rather than "ByBlock" or a specific color | VSEDGECOLOR ByEntity |
For the Wireframe visual style, 3D enhanced performance is also subject to the following:
| When VSFACESTYLE is set to 0 . . . | System Variable and Setting |
| Obscured edges is turned on | VSOBSCUREDEDGES 1 |
| Obscured and visible edge colors must be the same | VSOBSCUREDCOLOR = VSEDGECOLOR |