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Fastest way to tell if a line touches any of a set of faces?
Evan_Reese
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I have a whole bunch of curves, and I want to tell if they touch any selected target faces. I first thought of evCollisions(), but I'm not sure it works with faces and curves (does it?). This is making me lean toward evDistance() and seeing if the distance is zero, which should work, but can anyone recommend something that will perform better? I'm looking for a high-performance solution since this operation could happen hundreds of times.
Evan Reese / Principal and Industrial Designer with Ovyl
Website: ovyl.io
Website: ovyl.io
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I know evCollisions() works with curves and curves so I assume it will work with curves and faces. Not sure how high performance this will be.
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Website: ovyl.io
I ended up sticking with evDistance() for it, but it's been long enough that I don't remember if I first tried evCollissions() and it was slower, or I just felt it was good enough as-is.
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That's fair. I'm noticing that the featurescript has a bit of a gaping whole with this limitation in being able to evaluate interaction between entities. That being said there's enough there for us to be able to make work-around's for now so I'm working with it.