diff --git a/crates/fj-core/src/validation/config.rs b/crates/fj-core/src/validation/config.rs
index cf295ec4d..dc763c24d 100644
--- a/crates/fj-core/src/validation/config.rs
+++ b/crates/fj-core/src/validation/config.rs
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@ pub struct ValidationConfig {
     /// The tolerance value used for intermediate geometry representation
     pub tolerance: Tolerance,
 
-    /// The minimum distance between distinct objects
-    ///
-    /// Objects whose distance is less than the value defined in this field, are
-    /// considered identical.
-    pub distinct_min_distance: Scalar,
-
     /// The maximum distance between identical objects
     ///
     /// Objects that are considered identical might still have a distance
@@ -37,21 +31,41 @@ pub struct ValidationConfig {
     /// that distance is less than the one defined in this field, can not be
     /// considered identical.
     pub identical_max_distance: Scalar,
+
+    /// The minimum distance between distinct objects
+    ///
+    /// Objects whose distance is less than the value defined in this field, are
+    /// considered identical.
+    pub distinct_min_distance: Scalar,
 }
 
-impl Default for ValidationConfig {
-    fn default() -> Self {
+impl ValidationConfig {
+    /// Compute validation config from a tolerance value
+    pub fn from_tolerance(tolerance: impl Into<Tolerance>) -> Self {
+        let tolerance = tolerance.into();
+
+        // This value can't be smaller than the tolerance. If it is, we'll get
+        // validation errors everywhere, just from numerical noise.
+        let identical_max_distance = tolerance.inner() * 10.;
+
+        // This value can't be smaller than `identical_max_distance`. Otherwise
+        // we can have distinct points that satisfy this constraint, but must be
+        // considered identical according to the other.
+        //
+        // This factor was chosen pretty arbitrarily and might need to be tuned.
+        let distinct_min_distance = identical_max_distance * 2.;
+
         Self {
             panic_on_error: false,
-            distinct_min_distance: Scalar::from_f64(5e-7), // 0.5 µm,
-            tolerance: Tolerance::from_scalar(0.001)
-                .expect("Tolerance provided is larger than zero"),
-
-            // This value was chosen pretty arbitrarily. Seems small enough to
-            // catch errors. If it turns out it's too small (because it produces
-            // false positives due to floating-point accuracy issues), we can
-            // adjust it.
-            identical_max_distance: Scalar::from_f64(5e-14),
+            tolerance,
+            identical_max_distance,
+            distinct_min_distance,
         }
     }
 }
+
+impl Default for ValidationConfig {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::from_tolerance(0.001)
+    }
+}