MD Automation

Trackpad

Built for a laptop with no mouse: scroll pans, pinch zooms at the cursor, and a flick glides and settles.

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

Overview

What it does

  • Two-finger scroll pans, sideways as well as up and down
  • Pinch or Ctrl+scroll zooms continuously at the cursor, not in notches
  • A flick glides and settles, and shortens rather than crawling on a heavy drawing
  • One toggle: plug in a mouse and MDTRACKPAD hands the wheel back

Run every command from the Trackpad 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 softwareTrackpad

In detail

How it earns its place.

The gestures your laptop already sends

Two-finger scroll arrives as one wheel message, horizontal scroll as a second one AutoCAD software discards, and a pinch as Ctrl+wheel: Windows sends it that way, so no touch API is involved. All three are answered by moving the view directly, which is why the drawing behaves like every other window on the machine.

Zoom lands where you are pointing

The view scales around the cursor and accumulates continuously instead of in fixed notches, so zooming in and back out returns the view you started from rather than somewhere near it. Twisted and parallel-projection 3D views come along unchanged: the gesture moves the screen, whatever the camera is doing.

Armed only where it belongs

A scroll over a palette, the command line or anything outside the drawing area is left to AutoCAD software untouched, as is a perspective view. The gesture mode is off until you run MDTRACKPAD and remembered afterwards, so a docked laptop keeps the wheel zoom it has always had.

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Trackpad

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.