If you think express tool's "Text Explode" (and then extruding it into 3D) is anything like this routine you obviously don't use 3D text very much. Yes, you can do this for a FEW pieces of text. But if you add more than a few pieces you start adding megabytes to the drawing (when I looked into it it was something like 10 words per MB at a reasonable zoom factor...yuck!). Or if you want to change your text properties at all (i.e. value, height, width, depth, justification, etc.), then you have to delete the thing and start all over. Or if you called the textexp at different zooms it created more or less vertices creating more detailed extrusions (when testing I was able to make a single word add 2 MB to a drawing). All of these inconsistent and time consuming factors is what lead to this routine. Below are the features listed in the .lsp file. Try to do that with the txtexp : ) ; - 3DText.lsp makes a block of every letter (on demand) that is 1 unit ; tall, 1 unit wide and 1 unit deep. When creating the 3D text ; string each letter is inserted with the appropriate X,Y,Z scale. ; This minimizes file size due to extruded blocks. If every letter ; (small and uppercase), special characters & fractions are inserted ; then the file size will only go up by a maximum of 2.5 MB for ; AutoCAD ver. 2000 file format (likely smaller for later versions) ; ; - 3DText.lsp has the ability to convert a DTEXT string into 3D Text ; ; - 3DText.lsp has the ability to edit/modify an existing piece of 3D ; text (i.e text string, justification, width, depth, etc.) ; ; - 3DText.lsp has the ability to fit the 3D text to a curved surface ; such as the face of a verticle cylinder (handy for labeling ; equipment with rounded surfaces such as tanks and vessels) ; ; - % Codes can be used for special characters and fractions: (listed in header of LISP file)