Method GetShortestLineTo

Namespace

GeometryHelper.Spatial

Assembly

GeometryHelper.dll

GetShortestLineTo(GeoPreparedSolid3)

Gets the shortest segment from this body to another, using the default tolerance.

public GeoLine3 GetShortestLineTo(GeoPreparedSolid3 other)

Parameters

other GeoPreparedSolid3

Returns

GeoLine3

GetShortestLineTo(GeoPreparedSolid3, Tolerance)

Gets the shortest segment from this body to another, within a tolerance; of no length where they touch.

public GeoLine3 GetShortestLineTo(GeoPreparedSolid3 other, Tolerance tolerance)

Parameters

other GeoPreparedSolid3

tolerance Tolerance

Returns

GeoLine3

Remarks

The two surfaces are meshed and indexed already, so the answer is found by walking the two indexes, nearest boxes first: the segment GetShortestLineTo(GeoSolid3, GeoSolid3, Tolerance) finds on the two materials, without meshing them again and weighing every pair of faces. Where several pairs are nearest alike, as between two parallel faces, either may be the one given.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

Thrown when the other body is null.