diff --git a/crates/smlib/src/ffi/measure.rs b/crates/smlib/src/ffi/measure.rs
index 2761b2458f..7c90fd2d96 100644
--- a/crates/smlib/src/ffi/measure.rs
+++ b/crates/smlib/src/ffi/measure.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-//! `smlib_brep_mass_properties`, `smlib_brep_area` and `smlib_brep_bounds` (the fork's `capi/src/smlib_measure.cpp`), declared by
+//! `smlib_brep_mass_properties`, `smlib_brep_area`, `smlib_brep_bounds` and
+//! `smlib_brep_edge_face_distance` (the fork's `capi/src/smlib_measure.cpp`), declared by
 //! hand. Part of the FFI boundary, like its parent: called only through [`crate::measure`].
 
 #![allow(unsafe_code)]
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ unsafe extern "C" {
     pub fn smlib_brep_mass_properties(brep: *const RawBrep, relative_accuracy: f64, out: *mut f64) -> i32;
     pub fn smlib_brep_area(brep: *const RawBrep, relative_accuracy: f64, out: *mut f64) -> i32;
     pub fn smlib_brep_bounds(brep: *const RawBrep, lo: *mut f64, hi: *mut f64) -> i32;
+    pub fn smlib_brep_edge_face_distance(brep: *const RawBrep, edge: i64, face: i64, out: *mut f64) -> i32;
 }
 
 #[cfg(feature = "native")]
@@ -43,6 +45,20 @@ pub fn bounds(b: &Handle) -> Result<([f64; 3], [f64; 3]), i32> {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "native")]
+pub fn edge_face_distance(b: &Handle, edge: i64, face: i64) -> Result<f64, i32> {
+    let mut d = 0.0;
+    match unsafe { smlib_brep_edge_face_distance(b.raw(), edge, face, &mut d) } {
+        OK => Ok(d),
+        s => Err(s),
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(not(feature = "native"))]
+pub fn edge_face_distance(_: &Handle, _: i64, _: i64) -> Result<f64, i32> {
+    Err(NOT_BUILT)
+}
+
 #[cfg(not(feature = "native"))]
 pub fn bounds(_: &Handle) -> Result<([f64; 3], [f64; 3]), i32> {
     Err(NOT_BUILT)
diff --git a/crates/smlib/src/measure.rs b/crates/smlib/src/measure.rs
index f44d4c655a..ec470c9671 100644
--- a/crates/smlib/src/measure.rs
+++ b/crates/smlib/src/measure.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 //! Exact mass properties from SMLib: area, volume, centroid and inertia, integrated on the exact
-//! surfaces rather than a tessellation, and the exact box.
+//! surfaces rather than a tessellation; the exact box; how far an edge lies from a face's surface.
 
 use crate::{Brep, Result, error, ffi};
 
@@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ impl Brep {
         ffi::measure::bounds(&self.0).map_err(error)
     }
 
+    /// How far edge `edge` (its curve over its interval) lies from the surface of face `face`,
+    /// over that surface's own domain and not beyond it, in mm: SMLib's own edge/face gap, the
+    /// one it sizes an edge's tolerance by. Indices are in the body's edge and face order (as
+    /// it was imported and is exported). An edge run past its face's patch measures how far it
+    /// goes; SMLib keeps such an edge whole when making its UV trim only when its zone tolerance
+    /// (half the flat arrays' `EDGE_TOLERANCE`) covers this.
+    pub fn edge_face_distance(&self, edge: usize, face: usize) -> Result<f64> {
+        let (Ok(e), Ok(f)) = (i64::try_from(edge), i64::try_from(face)) else { return Err(error(ffi::ERR_ARG)) };
+        ffi::measure::edge_face_distance(&self.0, e, f).map_err(error)
+    }
+
     /// Total area of every face, each counted once, so sheets and open shells too.
     pub fn area(&self, relative_accuracy: f64) -> Result<f64> {
         ffi::measure::area(&self.0, relative_accuracy).map_err(error)