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I was curious this morning as to why the icons for my Autodesk bookmarks had changed. It looks like Autodesk wants to project a feeling of "...action, momentum, and a clear direction toward the future". https://adsknews.autodesk.com/news/new-autodesk-logo-2021

If you have ever worked for a big corporation they just love changing logo's, letterheads etc Oh yeah and then tell you that the shade of the company logo in your Acad dwg does not look right, but they can not tell you the RGB to correct it, that was like 5 years ago. I think they changed twice where I worked last.

Can't be certain from a picture, but text with one grip is usually a bare text object. Multiple grips come with a multitext object. If that's not your issue, please provide more information. Is this a multitext? What are the values of your GRIPS and MTEXTCOLUMN variables?

Just posted this over at theSwamp, thought I'd share it with you fine people also. I was inspired to write a few functions that will generate entities using the minimum possible data requirements - hence all other values are taken as default. This is handy for those who want to quickly generate entities without having to look up what codes are necessary, and which are surplus to requirement. Also, it helps beginners to use the entmake function in their codes, without too much effort. These, of course, are the quickest way to generate entities in AutoCAD - quicker than VL, and much quicker than a command call. Also, they are not affected by OSnap (so no need to turn it off). Example of usage, to create a line from (0,0,0) to (1,0,0): (Line '(0 0 0) '(1 0 0)) Yes, its as easy as that. The functions will also return the entity name of the newly created entity (if successful), and so, no need to be using 'entlast'... If you have any queries as to how to use them, just ask. (defun 3DFace (p1 p2 p3 p4) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "3DFACE") (cons 10 p1) (cons 11 p2) (cons 12 p3) (cons 13 p4)))) (defun Arc (cen rad sAng eAng) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "ARC") (cons 10 cen) (cons 40 rad) (cons 50 sAng) (cons 51 eAng)))) (defun AttDef (tag prmpt def pt hgt flag) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "ATTDEF") (cons 10 pt) (cons 40 hgt) (cons 1 def) (cons 3 prmpt) (cons 2 tag) (cons 70 flag)))) (defun Circle (cen rad) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "CIRCLE") (cons 10 cen) (cons 40 rad)))) (defun Ellipse (cen maj ratio) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "ELLIPSE") (cons 100 "AcDbEntity") (cons 100 "AcDbEllipse") (cons 10 cen) (cons 11 maj) (cons 40 ratio) (cons 41 0) (cons 42 (* 2 pi))))) (defun Insert (pt Nme) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "INSERT") (cons 2 Nme) (cons 10 pt)))) (defun Line (p1 p2) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "LINE") (cons 10 p1) (cons 11 p2)))) (defun LWPoly (lst cls) (entmakex (append (list (cons 0 "LWPOLYLINE") (cons 100 "AcDbEntity") (cons 100 "AcDbPolyline") (cons 90 (length lst)) (cons 70 cls)) (mapcar (function (lambda (p) (cons 10 p))) lst)))) (defun M-Text (pt str) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "MTEXT") (cons 100 "AcDbEntity") (cons 100 "AcDbMText") (cons 10 pt) (cons 1 str)))) (defun Point (pt) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "POINT") (cons 10 pt)))) (defun Polyline (lst) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "POLYLINE") (cons 10 '(0 0 0)))) (mapcar (function (lambda (p) (entmake (list (cons 0 "VERTEX") (cons 10 p))))) lst) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "SEQEND")))) (defun Solid (p1 p2 p3 p4) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "SOLID") (cons 10 p1) (cons 11 p2) (cons 12 p3) (cons 13 p4)))) (defun Text (pt hgt str) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "TEXT") (cons 10 pt) (cons 40 hgt) (cons 1 str)))) (defun Trce (p1 p2 p3 p4) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "TRACE") (cons 10 p1) (cons 11 p2) (cons 12 p3) (cons 13 p4)))) (defun xLine (pt vec) (entmakex (list (cons 0 "XLINE") (cons 100 "AcDbEntity") (cons 100 "AcDbXline") (cons 10 pt) (cons 11 vec)))) (defun Layer (Nme) (entmake (list (cons 0 "LAYER") (cons 100 "AcDbSymbolTableRecord") (cons 100 "AcDbLayerTableRecord") (cons 2 Nme) (cons 70 0)))) (defun Layer (Nme Col Ltyp LWgt Plt) (entmake (list (cons 0 "LAYER") (cons 100 "AcDbSymbolTableRecord") (cons 100 "AcDbLayerTableRecord") (cons 2 Nme) (cons 70 0) (cons 62 Col) (cons 6 Ltyp) (cons 290 Plt) (cons 370 LWgt)))) The list is a working progress of course, but this is what I have so far. Also, if the argument names aren't too clear, a reference as to what they mean can be found here. Lee