From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2020 Essential Training
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Visual styles - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2020 Essential Training
Visual styles
- [Instructor] When working in 3D, it is very easy to lose your orientation in the drawing. Without faces and shadows, it can be very difficult to orient where you're looking in relation to your geometry. Fortunately, there are a handful of preset modes that allow you to display your 3D geometry in different ways based on your needs. We call these visual styles. We can access these only in model space but they're found here in the upper left corner. So the first is 2D wireframe. This is the default visual style for the basic AutoCAD template and the one we've been working in up until now. It is the least taxing on your system as far as processor and resources, so it's good to remember when working on laptops or older hardware. Next up is conceptual. This is a pastel style that uses object colors and gives our model some basic services and basic shading. Next on the list is hidden. This is similar to wireframe except that it…
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