MD Automation

Align & Distribute

Fourteen commands to align objects to a shared edge or centre line, distribute them evenly, space them with an exact gap, or snap them to the drawing grid. Everything works on each object’s geometric bounding box, so lines, blocks, text and hatches all behave the same.

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14 commands · Arrange panel · AutoCAD 2025+ · perpetual licence

Overview

What it does

  • Align to left, right, top, bottom, or centres: one click from the ribbon
  • Distribute evenly, or with an exact gap between objects
  • Snap object centres to the drawing grid with MDALIGNGRID
  • Ribbon, right-click menu, or command line, with autocomplete icons

Run every command from the Arrange panel on the shared MD Plugins ribbon tab, from the right-click menu, or by typing it, with AutoCAD's own autocomplete icons.

AutoCAD 2025–2026MDDISTRIBUTE

In detail

How it earns its place.

Align to any edge or centre line

Six one-click commands plus an interactive MDALIGN that prompts for the edge. Nothing is reshaped: objects are only moved, so geometry, scale and rotation come through untouched.

Even spacing, or an exact gap

MDDISTRIBUTE spaces object centres evenly between the two outermost objects. MDDISTRIBUTEGAP lays them out edge to edge with the gap you type, the version AutoCAD never shipped.

Snap to the drawing grid

MDALIGNGRID moves each object’s centre to the nearest snap point, using the drawing’s own SNAPBASE and SNAPUNIT. Useful for tidying a layout that drifted off-grid.

Free 15-day trial

Align & Distribute

A direct download is not published yet. The plugin remains available on the Autodesk App Store.

$99 CAD one-time: perpetual licence, one machine, works offline.

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Installing

Install it in a minute

  1. 01

    Close AutoCAD, run the installer

    Its files are locked while AutoCAD is open, so close it first.

  2. 02

    Trust the publisher, once

    On first launch AutoCAD names MD Automation and asks whether to load it. Tick “Always trust applications from MD Automation”: every MD plugin loads silently afterwards.

  3. 03

    Start the trial

    Run MDLICENSEMANAGER, open the Plugins tab, click Start trial. 15 days, no account, no payment.

AutoCAD 2025+ (64-bit Windows). Also on the Autodesk App Store: same build, published here the day it ships. All downloads.

The rest of the toolkit

Also available.