Viewport styles
Viewport styles give designers a combination of control and flexibility in project presentation. Some object parameters can be locked to a certain value for consistency, while others can be customized for each individual instance to meet the project's needs. See Concept: Plug-in object styles.
The Vectorworks resource libraries provide many commonly used viewport styles. If you need a different style, create a custom viewport style for your own use or to share with coworkers. See Creating and editing viewport styles.
Generally, viewport styles can control the class and layer visibilities; scale; the drawing label style; drawing details such as 2D components, planar objects, and detail levels; the view; and rendering settings including render mode, Renderworks background, lighting options, perspective, and so on. This allows you to easily apply a consistent appearance to multiple viewports that illustrate different parts of a design.
Other elements that must be set independently for each viewport are not part of a viewport style.
A viewport style can be used for any type of viewport, but only the appropriate parameters are applied to a given viewport. For example, if a standard viewport style is used for a design layer viewport, the viewport style's display settings such as view, render modes, and so on cannot be applied to the viewport; those settings are controlled by the design layer on which the viewport is placed. Similarly, if you use a standard viewport style for a section viewport, the style can't provide the section-specific parameters such as those related to extents beyond/before the cut plane.
Styled viewports maintain their style when copied from one location to another in the same file. When styled viewports are copied from one file to another, the viewport style is imported to the new file, as are the classes associated with the viewport style. Class overrides carry over to the new file, along with the style resource. The imported classes are subject to the Viewport Visibility for New Class(es) setting for the file they are imported into. See Creating classes.
