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AutoCAD does not officially support geometric 3D constraints, but parametric constraints can be used also for 3D objects.

Just create the constraint between 2D objects first and then add the new 3D object(s) to the same block (or group) as the original constrained object. An example of constrained 3D objects created by editing the original 2D blocks using EXTRUDE (and DELOBJ=0) in the sample drawing with bricks of a toy set - Merkur2.dwg:

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