Visual Style

A collection of settings that control  the display of edges and shading in the viewport

Hidden

Sketchy

Conceptul

Shaded with Edges

Visual Style Override

You can temporary override the existing visual style

No Edges

Isolines

Facet Edges

Normal

Monochrome

Tint

Desaturate

No Face Style

Realistic Face Style

Warm-Cool Face Style

Shadows

Materials & Textures

Create Custom Visual Style

Save the current visual style

Create New Visual Style icon on Visual Style Manager palette

Visual Settings

Face Settings

Control the display of 3D faces:

Face Style: Realistic, Gooch or No Face

Lighting Quality: Faceted, Smooth, Smoothest

Color: Normal, Monochrome, Tint, Desaturate

Opacity: Value of tramsparency

Material Display: Materials and Textures, Materials, Off

Lighting

Controls the lighting effect in viewport

Shadow turn off by default for all visual style to save resource

Environment Settings

Controls use of background

Edge Settings

Controls the display of Occluded Edges, Intersection Edges, Silhouette Edges, Edge Modifiers

Export Visual Style

Visual Styles are saved in a drawing

The custom visual styles cannot be use in other drawing

Export them to a open Tool Palettes

This will make it able to access from any drawing

Ex: Create New Visual Style

Create a custom visual style by Visual Style Manager

View tab > Visual Styles panel - Slant Arrow

This will startup a Visual Style Manager

Click icon Create New Visual Style

Input the information for new visual style

Name: See Through
Description: All objects half transparent

Face Settings

Click the icon Opacity to activate the opacity input
Opacity: 50
Material Display: Materials and textures

Occluded Edges

Show: No

Select other visual style

Then select the new created Visual Style: See Through

This will activate the "Apply Selected Visual Style to Current Viewport"

Click on the activated icon

All models in scene become half transparent

Materials

Materials can help to understand the purpose and qualities of the 3D model

Left cup made by porcelain, more heavy and durable
Right cup made by glass, lighter and fragile

Materials and Visual Style

Materials only show on Realistic visual style

Other visual style you need to render, then materials will display

Material Browser

Used to view and apply materials from the material library

Allows to create and modify materials

1. Document Materials: Preview materials added in the drawing
2. Material Library
3. Create new library
4. Create new material
5. Open Material Editor

Adding Materials

Drag and drop material onto the object
Ctrl + Drag & drop onto the face of an object

Remove Materials

Select the object to remove attached material

Attach by Layer

Attach material to each object might take too long

Attach materials based on the layer will cut short the time consume

Material Editor

Modify existing material

Duplicate current material

Preview

Preview in different shape and rendering quality

Rendering quality: Fastest, Draft, Medium, production

Create New Type of Material

Create new material or duplicate an existing material

Properties

Generic

Controls the color, image, glossiness and highlights

Reflectivity

Controls the amount of light reflected

Transparency

Controls the amount of transparency, refraction

Cutouts

Uses and image or texture to make a material partially transparent

Used to create lace or etched glass

Self Illumination

controls the color, brightness, temperature of light

Bump

Uses an image of the material or texture to create a bump pattern

Tint

Control the hue and saturation value

Texture Editor

Modify the appearance of the texture displayed on a material

 Click the image of material to bring out the Texture Editor

Controls the position, scale, repeat

Material Mapping

Change the mapping when projected on the different surface types

Planar

Projects an image onto a flat surface

Box

Projects an image onto the faces of a boxlike solid

Cylindrical

Wraps an image onto a cylindrical object

Shperical

Wraps an image onto a spherical object

Ex: Apply Material

Apply materials to object and by layer

Adds Materials to Document

Render tab > Materials panel > Materials Browser

Navigate to the material library

Click on the UP arrow of the material to add material to document

Fabric: Leather - Blue
Flooring: Wood > Andiroba - Natural
Glass: Clear - Green 1
          Clear
Metal: Aluminum - Flat
          Aluminum - Brushed - Radom
Masonry: Stone - Onyx - Rose
               Stone - Slate - Mottled
Plastic: High Gloss - Burnt Red
Roofing: Shingles - Uneven 1
              Shake - Handsplit
Wood: Hickory
           Ash Door

Attach by Layer

Apply materials by layer

Render tab > Materials panel expand - Attach By Layer

Drag the materials from left pane (Material Name) to the right pane (Layer Material)

Materials attached to the 3D objects in model by layer

Material Edit

Document Materials: All

Right-click on the material - Edit

Material Editor palettes - click on the image

This will call-out the Texture Editor
Change the Scale of Sample Size:
Width: 3000
There is a link between width and height
Height will automatically adjust