leej52•12d ago

I just hit 500 layers on a single drawing file and it felt wrong

I was working on a big commercial site plan in AutoCAD last week, and the layer list just kept growing. I added one for existing trees, another for proposed lighting, and it never stopped. When I finally checked, the count was over 500. Everyone says more layers means better organization, but this felt messy and slow. My computer started to lag every time I froze a batch. Has anyone else found that too many layers actually makes a drawing harder to work with?

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gavina735h ago

Used to think more layers was the goal... but a list that long just becomes a wall you have to search through every time.

finleyf8812d ago

Yeah, that's the tipping point. It stops being helpful and just becomes noise. I start grouping similar stuff into parent layers, like all site lighting under one main layer I can turn off. Cuts down the clutter in the list big time.

walker.max12d agoMost Upvoted

Ever notice how this happens with too many browser tabs too? It feels organized until it just becomes a wall of noise.