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How to freeze a table snapshot

Keep a fixed table result, then unfreeze it when you want to resume updates.

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Freeze table

Table actions → Freeze table

Before you start

Open the table you want to preserve and finish its calculations. Freeze keeps the table's current result and stops it from syncing. This is useful when retaining a reviewed estimate while the drawing or product data continues to change.

Steps

  1. Open More actions icon Table actions above the grid.
  2. Click Freeze icon Freeze table. The table becomes read-only and shows Frozen with a date.
  3. To resume updating, click the Frozen date, then Unfreeze.
Frozen table status and the Unfreeze control explaining that nothing syncs while frozen.

Check your result

While frozen, the table keeps its captured values rather than following drawing, library, or linked-table changes. Unfreezing makes it editable again and resumes calculation from its sources.

Freezing a table does not lock the drawing branch. If you need a reusable column setup rather than a fixed project result, save a table template.

Troubleshooting

  • Cells cannot be edited: click the Frozen date and choose Unfreeze.
  • New markups or prices are not reflected: a frozen table deliberately stops syncing. Unfreeze it to read the current sources.
  • The result changed after unfreezing: the source data changed since the snapshot. Keep a table frozen when its old values are the result you need to retain.