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Micheal – Yes, that's because ATTDISP was designed to do exactly that: control the visibility state of all variable attributes globally, regardless of what each individual attribute's visiblity flags are, and hence, when ATTDISP is ON (or 1), AutoCAD's entity generation code will ignore the visibility bit in the 70 flags group of each attribute, and draw it unconditionally. Dave's suggestion (placing the attributes on their own layer and freezing it), is another way of doing it, but regardless, the attributes will be visible if the layer is thawed, so there's no way to make them permanently "invisible". You could use Extended Entity Data attached to each block insertion instead, and you'll never see it on the drawing. Constant attributes are essentially nothing but glorified text entities which are treated differently by ATTEXT, but otherwise, it is their constant nature that makes it impossible to modify them on an individual basis. -TonyT.