virtual_entities() yields geometry only, so an exploded tagged symbol lost its tag value silently. Every attached ATTRIB now becomes a TEXT at the same WCS placement/height/rotation/style/layer (invisible stays invisible), reported as attribute_texts. COM reads GetAttributes before Explode, deletes the ATTDEF placeholders Explode returns, AddText per value, and deletes the reference ActiveX Explode leaves behind. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FKFStjEFzpGyLq5bMpWxTd