MD Automation

Quick Layer

A popup at your cursor: type a few letters, press Enter, that layer is current. Any selection moves with it.

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1 command · Layer panel · AutoCAD® 2025+ software · perpetual license

Overview

What it does

  • Type any part of a layer name, best matches first; no scrolling a layer dialog
  • Objects selected? Picking a layer reassigns them too, like LAYCUR
  • On/off, freeze, lock, plot and colour on every row, one layer or a batch
  • Scope the list to all layers, only those in use, or xref layers

Run every command from the Layer panel on the shared MD Automation ribbon tab, from the right-click menu, or by typing it, with the autocomplete icons built into AutoCAD software.

AutoCAD 2025 softwareQuick Layer

In detail

How it earns its place.

Quick-open for layer names

Ranking rewards consecutive runs, word-boundary starts and shorter names, so “elpnl” finds ELEC-PANEL-01 without you typing it out. In a drawing with hundreds of discipline-prefixed layers this replaces the scroll entirely.

Selection-aware, without a mode switch

The command reads the pick-first selection when it opens. Those objects’ layers get pinned in their own section at the top, and committing a layer can reassign the selection to it: ask each time, always, or never.

Layer housekeeping without leaving the popup

Toggle on/off, freeze, lock and plot, or recolour, straight from a row. Shift-select a filtered run and one click applies to all of them, in a single transaction. The popup is modeless, so none of it closes the window.

Free 15-day trial

Quick Layer

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

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

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Installing

Install it in a minute

  1. 01

    Close AutoCAD software, run the installer

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

  2. 02

    Trust the publisher, once

    On first launch, AutoCAD software shows a security warning naming MD Automation as the publisher. Click Always Load: 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+ software (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.