Several visual styles provide enhanced 3D performance for pan, zoom, and orbit operations if they use specific settings.
The following predefined visual styles provide a dramatic increase in display speed over other visual styles, especially for large 3D models.
Custom visual styles that conform to the following settings can also provide the same level of enhanced performance:
| 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 |
| Occluded (hidden) facet edges must be turned off | VSOCCLUDEDEDGES 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 additionally subject to the following settings:
| When VSFACESTYLE is set to 0 . . . | System Variable and Setting |
| Occluded edges is turned on | VSOCCLUDEDEDGES 1 |
| Occluded and visible edge colors must be the same | VSOCCLUDEDCOLOR = VSEDGECOLOR |