Thanks for the reply :) Duplicate along path is fantastic for fences etc, but ultimately I'm not sure it would be the best solution for this type of job. Unfortunately there are a lot of shelves to be filled and I think instead of manually doing it like I always do (I usually have to do this a lot on projects) I'm hoping…
ya when i got more tonight i could make up a little code to get you on your way. best way would be to grab the bounding box information from the selected polygons, and work with that data. you would also want to but some tests in compare the bounding boxes of the books to so they don't intersect.