# Solved - Best workaround to align these round shapes (3D snap) in a compartment
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/solved-best-workaround-to-align-these-round-shapes-3d-snap-in-a-compartment/7076
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/solved-best-workaround-to-align-these-round-shapes-3d-snap-in-a-compartment/7076 "2020-04-03T16:11:42Z")
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### Author:  [@Claudio](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Claudio)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/solved-best-workaround-to-align-these-round-shapes-3d-snap-in-a-compartment/7076/1 "2020-04-03T16:11:42Z")
Since a 3D snap feature is still missing, I’m asking which is the state of art workaround to accomplish this task. Referring to the following picture:
I need to place several copies of these red beads into the compartment, aligning them to the floor and the walls. Once I align the first two, I will pile copies of them (easy task, so no need for this) and then make other copies, vertically rotated by 90° (around x or y axis) to fit the blank space and figure out how many can be placed without overlapping or “brimming over”. It should be pretty easy if I can stop their translation when there is a contact between visible surfaces (or a 3D snap of sort), but without such feature looks like an impossibly long task. Has the community found a decent workaround for this kind of tasks?
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### Author:  [@LePapa](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/LePapa)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/solved-best-workaround-to-align-these-round-shapes-3d-snap-in-a-compartment/7076/2 "2020-04-03T17:32:49Z")
Your case is 2D challenge. Red items are expected be on one plane and aligned. I would play with sketch constrains to pack of 2 or how much you need sets of these shapes into smaller area first to create first small pattern, then translate pattern to larger area by copy translate. You will need a lot dimensions, constrains and additional construction geometries.
In 3D also additional sketch will help to align models.
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### Author:  [@Victor\_Shapr3D](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Victor_Shapr3D)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/solved-best-workaround-to-align-these-round-shapes-3d-snap-in-a-compartment/7076/3 "2020-10-15T08:21:35Z")
Hi, @Claudio and @LePapa we have just released the 3d Snap/Alignment feature with the app version 3.52 🥳
Simply update the app and here are more details about the newly released feature:
> [@iPad - 3.52 - Align tool](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/new-release-3-52-align-tool/9343):
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> Good morning, everyone! We’re introducing our brand-spanking new Align tool: with this new feature, you can align 3D bodies in your design space in a split second, without juggling a handful of other tools (like Translate). With very little effort, you can transform and rearrange objects any way you want. Align is simple and smart. Just select the faces, edges, or snap points of 3D objects that you want to align, and the tool will take care of the rest for you. Once you’ve …