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I am looking to rotate multiple text entities about their own individual insertion points to an orientation legible in plan view. This is not a simple matter of changing the angle of rotation as this rotates about the wrong axis (and of course multiple items)! Through experimenting with dxf codes I have established that if codes 210,220 and 230 are set to 0,0,1 then this does achieve the desired result. i.e. (210 0.0) (220 0.0) (230 1.0) The reason I am doing this is to format text output from another drawing package. I have found and am trying to modify the attached Lee Mac "change colour" lisp to achieve the result highlighted above and would be greatful for any help from the collective on this. Note that I alighted on this code as it adds the desired entities if they do not originally exist. Thanks in advance for any help \ pointers Chris (defun c:doit (/ i ss ent eLst) (if (setq i -1 ss (ssget "_:L")) (while (setq ent (ssname ss (setq i (1+ i)))) (setq eLst (entget ent)) (setq eLst (subst '(8 . "0") (assoc 8 eLst) eLst)) (entmod (if (assoc 62 eLst) (subst '(62 . 3) (assoc 62 eLst) eLst) (append eLst '((62 . 3))))))) (princ))

First time in this forum. I have a rotate problem. I am going from AutoCad 2010 to 2011 and I haven't been able to change all the setting in 2011 to match my usual fun loving workspace. (Anyway) I need to rotate an object in 3D space and 2011 isn't allowing me to do so. I can rotate from the top view, 90 degrees, but from the left, front, right, or back I can't. I believe this is a setting. WHAT IS IT? lol Sorry I am very frustrated. BTW... AutoCad 2011 is at home.. I am at work... I going to have to try your solutions working backwards (In other words I need to screw up 2010 to see if I can get it looking like the one at home, then I will know what setting is the problem).