Placing content in Figma without overlapping content that is already there

The only way is to loop through all objects’ coordinates on canvas and find a free space algorithmically.

Basically, what you need to do is check the coordinates and the width and height of the children of the PageNode, and then calculate whether your object overlaps other objects on the canvas.

Links to relevant properties:

• absoluteBoundingBox;
• absoluteRenderBounds;
• children;
• width;
• height;
• x;
• y.