diff --git a/GeoLib/AnalyticalGeometry.cpp b/GeoLib/AnalyticalGeometry.cpp
index 1339f0a791077612c38c16f13a287b41bb0c6a27..a1b62d1836b005b1c0f48976641932a1f0ef7501 100644
--- a/GeoLib/AnalyticalGeometry.cpp
+++ b/GeoLib/AnalyticalGeometry.cpp
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ Orientation getOrientation(const GeoLib::Point* p0, const GeoLib::Point* p1,
 bool parallel(MathLib::Vector3 v, MathLib::Vector3 w)
 {
 	// check degenerated cases
-	if (v.length() < std::numeric_limits<double>::min())
+	if (v.getLength() < std::numeric_limits<double>::min())
 		return false;
 
-	if (w.length() < std::numeric_limits<double>::min())
+	if (w.getLength() < std::numeric_limits<double>::min())
 		return false;
 
 	v.normalize();
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ void getNewellPlane(const std::vector<GeoLib::Point*>& pnts, MathLib::Vector3 &p
 		centroid += *(pnts[j]);
 	}
 
-	plane_normal *= 1.0 / plane_normal.length();
+	plane_normal *= 1.0 / plane_normal.getLength();
 	d = MathLib::scalarProduct(centroid, plane_normal) / n_pnts;
 }
 
diff --git a/MathLib/Vector3.h b/MathLib/Vector3.h
index f8938cd4b5e9eed21cc0da61795102ab1e6cf30f..2824dc3da263405045c20eec2ca4983ac3464eaf 100644
--- a/MathLib/Vector3.h
+++ b/MathLib/Vector3.h
@@ -124,15 +124,21 @@ public:
 	 */
 	void normalize()
 	{
-		const double s(1/length());
+		const double s(1/getLength());
 		for (std::size_t i(0); i < 3; i++)
 			this->_x[i] *= s;
 	}
 
+	/// Returns the squared length
+	double getSqrLength(void) const
+	{
+		return this->_x[0]*this->_x[0] + this->_x[1]*this->_x[1] + this->_x[2]*this->_x[2];
+	}
+
 	/// Returns the length
-	double length(void) const
+	double getLength(void) const
 	{
-		return sqrt(sqrLength());
+		return sqrt(getSqrLength());
 	}
 
 	/** scalarProduct, implementation of scalar product,
@@ -158,13 +164,6 @@ public:
 	friend 	TemplateVector3<T1> operator*(
 		double s,
 		TemplateVector3<T1> const& v);
-
-private:
-	/// Returns the squared length
-	double sqrLength(void) const
-	{
-		return this->_x[0]*this->_x[0] + this->_x[1]*this->_x[1] + this->_x[2]*this->_x[2];
-	}
 };
 
 template <typename T>
diff --git a/Tests/MathLib/TestVector3.cpp b/Tests/MathLib/TestVector3.cpp
index 1e7afa0280bf71048c31d7b5ed154cdd5972d56c..9923b9de644342a51345c0bd0f3ba5408dd452f7 100644
--- a/Tests/MathLib/TestVector3.cpp
+++ b/Tests/MathLib/TestVector3.cpp
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ TEST(MathLib, TestVector3Multiplications)
 
 	// test normalisation
 	v.normalize();
-	ASSERT_NEAR(1.0, v.length(), std::numeric_limits<double>::epsilon());
+	ASSERT_NEAR(1.0, v.getLength(), std::numeric_limits<double>::epsilon());
 
 }