Difference between freeze and off in autocad

It is an ease of use setting, not as important in todays display reps. Message 4 of 5. If you have objects on a layer that is turned off and use an "all" selection the objects on the layer that is off will be selected. You could move or erase objects that are not displaying. Box Winston-Salem, NC www. Message 5 of 5. Post Reply. Can't find what you're looking for? Ask the community or share your knowledge.

English Original X. View Original X. By: Support. Support 0 contributions. However, if you refresh the drawing, the layer will reappear. To freeze a layer, click the snowflake icon to the right of the yellow light bulb. When you freeze a layer, the visible effect is the same as turning a layer off. Switching the layer off and freezing the layer appears to do the same, but performance is the key difference. It is something that is not shown on the screen as it occurs in the background.

The choice for better performance is to freeze a layer. When a layer is frozen, AutoCAD releases it from memory and no longer has to account for it during a …. From the acad help: "AutoCAD does not display, plot, hide, render, or regenerate objects on frozen layers. I think a lot of us have been fuzzy, at best, about the differences. Very good subject! I myself took awhile to understand the difference between those two.

It is one the confusing commands in Autocad. Not locked ones though. Excellent explanation! I have also forwarded this article to our dev team that works on Cad functionality. Thanks for posting this. Use the LAYER command to open up the layer dialog box, then click the little snowflake symbol to freeze or unfreeze layers.