is there a way to work with the viewport in shade mode? it seems it will only show the shade mode in a preview with the option to rotate but as soon as you click on the view port it goes back to the shaded mode.
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hmm that’s a weird set of commands on that button:
I personally don’t ever use that one.
I’d recommend the one next to it:
but then you’d probably want to modify that particular display mode if you’re not seeing the style you want.
The Shade command is a holdover from V 1.0 !!.. before Rhino had a full time shaded mode… 
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i ended up figuring it out. i copied the settings for the shaded, then created a new mode in the options, then made the new that doesnt so thew isocurve lines like in the shaded mode. then i made a button for my tool bar
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V8 WIP has an option to not show isocurves.
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It was merely ahead ot its time. Like any right-thinking person I model in wireframe and use shade occasionally when I need to see the surfaces.
-Pascal
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the shade command is what I considered to be rendering 
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But hey, there was this beautiful always on software shade-mode!
Very slow on whole models, but for surface modelling (aka. Pulling points) I loved the quality. (Cull control points so good!!)
Unfortunately it got dropped with rhino 3, but I’m over it by now. 