nilesh jadhav reminds us all of his very useful script for Autodesk Maya that will let you duplicate along a curve. He developed this script to duplicate or instance objects along the curve – using this this you can populate the objects pretty quickly. This is by no means a new or updated script, however, it is very useful in some cases… like making candy necklaces just off the top of my head 🙂
Duplicate Along Curve from nilesh jadhav on Vimeo.