Maybe it's because I'm now gainfully employed more than I am frittering my time away here giving everything away to needy people, but since I doubt that Autodesk will provide us such a function, I am feeling inspired to write one myself.
Why? Because vl-getboundingbox returns only the LL and UR corners of a rectangle surrounding an entity. You should know that, especially with MTEXT, the real life outline can have a lot of ins and outs what with short lines and long lines. So I have already figured that if you explode a copy of mtext, you could assemble the textbox of each line of resulting text entities into a jagged outline that you could turn into a polyline. But alas, imagine all the ins and outs of a block insertion especially with curved features included. And the result (if I could do it) would be nothing more than a polyline. Okay, that would be cool for hatching, but I couldn't make it help background filling (well unless I were Owen Wengerd or some other super power). Anyway, all I know is AutoLisp and that I had better follow my wife's instructions to get off the computer and tend things in and around the house.
BTW, why does this place underline in red words like polyline and mtext? This IS an AutoCAD forum, isn't it?
