I was doing some work with parsing and visualising SVG files but the views ended up having lots of paths and a lot of memory was consumed. So the idea was to convert the UIView to an image … :) 

 
// Doing work to generate the SVG in the schematics view;
// At the end there was no reason to keep all these (SVGView)subviews 
// ******* Rasterize ************
// Create an image from the view
 
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(schematicsView.frame.size);
    [schematicsView.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
    UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
 
// Remove the SVG views to release the memory.
    for (SVGView *view in SVGReferences) 
        [view removeFromSuperview];
 
// Add the image that was created before as a subview
    [self.view addSubview:[[[UIImageView alloc] 
                            initWithImage:viewImage] autorelease]];

I swear pure awesomeness!!! :)