AutoCAD Platform Customization. Ambrosius Lee

on a 3D model because it allows you to start a command in one viewport and switch to another viewport that has a different view to finish the command. It can be helpful when you are working on large drawings as well. You use the vports command to create named viewport configurations or restore the original single-viewport configuration.

      Visual Styles Looking at 3D models in wireframe can make it hard to tell what is going on at times, and rendering your model can take some time based on the lighting, materials, and other rendering settings that are applied. Visual styles allow you to control a number of settings that affect the appearance of 3D objects. They can be used to show only the visible edges from the current viewpoint, apply colors of shading, and even make 3D objects appear semitransparent to see the objects beyond. Visual styles can be created and modified in AutoCAD on both Windows and Mac OS, but the process is slightly different. In AutoCAD on Windows, you use the visualstyle command to display the Visual Styles Manager, but in AutoCAD for Mac you use a combination of the Visual Style section on the Properties Inspector (properties command) when no objects are selected and the vssave command to save the changes to a visual style.