V6 Wish - Shortest Distance Between 2 Surfaces

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hello Rhino Development Team!

May we have a tool that reports the shortest distance between two arbitrary surfaces?

Thanks!
Bryan

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Hi Bryan - for now, here’s a script that may help - this is an old Rhino Script, drag and drop it onto Rhino from whereever you save it, then type

Clearance

Select the the objects to test and then click on one of them, the second one, near where it looks like they are closest.
FindClearance2.rvb (2.0 KB)

-Pascal

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Thanks Pascal!

I tested the script by finding the distance between two convex surfaces in Rhino, and then comparing the result having imported those surfaces into SolidWorks. Both applications were in agreement, except that SolidWorks provided one additional decimal place of precision in the result.

Bryan