cloud/mesh distance; mesh assignment

[danick87]

Hey,

I'm measuring distances between a pointcloud and a stl-file. The results are exported into a .csv-file.
Amongst other things these values represent points and its distance to the nearest surface of the stl.
Now i'm wondering if theres a function to also store the data of which surface is the nearest and therefore used for the calculation?

I hope you understand my question.

Thanks in advance

Tobi

[daniel]

Nope. If you were comparing two points clouds you could extract the 'Closest Point Set', but not with a triangular mesh. One option is to convert the mesh to a (dense) point cloud, but not if you want the 'Closest Triangle Set' of course...