chelsea1307 Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 whats the difference between off and frozen layers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 As I understand it, a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away if a layer was turned off and a Regen was issued AutoCAD would take into account all the objects on the layer that was turned off. It the layer were frozen it wouldn't. It sped things up a bit. I could be mistaken as it has been a while. I don't think I have ever turned a layer off. I have always froze the layer instead. Couldn't objects on layers that were turned off be erased? Can't recall. Brain has gone to mush. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea1307 Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 I just had an instance of a couple of objects werent displayed but were plotting, turns out the layer they were on was set to off. I changed it to frozen and they stoped plotting. I read the help and to me it said that both off and frozen prevent the objects from being plotted, was just trying to figure out if i was missing something or if autocad was having one of its moments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 And that's why I like the "frozen" option. There's no suprises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bethel Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 I wrote this a while back: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2824&highlight=Layers -David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScribbleJ Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 The only difference between the two is when you freeze a layer it is no longer kept in memory (RAM) but it is when the layer is turn off. This was done back when PC's were not as powerful as they are now in order to conserve memory use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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