# Can 3D objects be treated as “solid” to prevent pass through during translation?
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/can-3d-objects-be-treated-as-solid-to-prevent-pass-through-during-translation/2884
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [September 9, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/can-3d-objects-be-treated-as-solid-to-prevent-pass-through-during-translation/2884 "2018-09-09T21:05:25Z")
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### Author:  [@caltain](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/caltain)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/can-3d-objects-be-treated-as-solid-to-prevent-pass-through-during-translation/2884/1 "2018-09-09T21:05:25Z")
I am wondering if there is a way to treat 3D objects as solids when changing the shape, size, orientation, or location of another object. I have a pair of linked tori, like a chain of rings. I would like to be able to drag one ring until some part of it makes contact with the other ring and then stop. As it is, I can move the rings, but they pass through each other, whereas I am looking for a behavior like that of links in a chain; movement along a drag vector up until contact with any other object.
Anyone…anyone…Bueller…Bueller…
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@DanielR](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/DanielR)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/can-3d-objects-be-treated-as-solid-to-prevent-pass-through-during-translation/2884/2 "2018-09-09T21:16:47Z")
Hi - this is not yet possible in Shapr, but we are working on 3D guides/snaps, that will make these sort of alignments simpler. No ETA, but its in our short term plans.