What is the difference between Freezing a layer vs Turning it off? (AutoCAD tips)

Freezing improves performance. That's the difference.
Freezing improves performance. That’s the difference.

A tyro to AutoCAD will immediately notice that he or she has two options available to him – both of which ostensibly render similar results: freezing a layer and turning it off. But what is the real difference?

  • When you turn a layer off, it is still loaded into memory. AutoCAD is keeping track of it.
  • When you freeze a layer, then AutoCAD basically ignores that layer and everything on it. You should notice a slight increase in speed and performance when you freeze layers – especially if they contain hundreds of thousands of elements. That will give you a significant performance boost cf: if you simply turned that layer off.

That’s the difference and I hope you learned something.


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