# What is the best way to get multiple boxes aligned horisontally and vertically?

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**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [August 23, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-get-multiple-boxes-aligned-horisontally-and-vertically/27482 "2023-08-23T05:44:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![anders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anders](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/anders)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-get-multiple-boxes-aligned-horisontally-and-vertically/27482/1 "2023-08-23T05:44:23Z")

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I’m working on a shelf - it’s going to be made in wood. I cant for the life of me figure out the best (aka fastest) way of aligning all the boxes vertically and horisontally in batches. I can do it one at a time with some spacers to align to - but the result I get is that the box just gets mounted on another box.

Any good ideas for me?

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**Author:** ![anders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anders](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/anders)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 7:55am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-get-multiple-boxes-aligned-horisontally-and-vertically/27482/2 "2023-08-24T07:55:58Z")

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![CleanShot 2023-08-24 at 09.43.37@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/7/0/700a93feaaf3b03621068e13f24d12756410a0b9.jpeg)  
This is another alignment thing I cant figure out as well

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**Author:** ![anders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@anders](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/anders)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-get-multiple-boxes-aligned-horisontally-and-vertically/27482/3 "2024-01-28T21:47:41Z")

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Bump on this - any ideas here people?

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**Author:** ![Bob3DPO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Bob3DPO](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bob3DPO)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-get-multiple-boxes-aligned-horisontally-and-vertically/27482/4 "2024-01-29T01:36:53Z")

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Hi Anders,  
I suggest starting over and use the **Pattern** tool to align them as you make them. It is pretty easy to do a 2 (or 3!) dimension array of the body you are replicating. You can do a pattern for each size box.