Prolines to Rhino

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Anyone with experience in transferring hull lines from Prolines (Basic-2D) to Rhino?
I'm new at this, experimenting with Rhino. I've imported my hulls into Rhino but end up with a "flat" stack of sections in one dimension on Rhino. Does Rhino let you "pull-through" the stack of sections to end up up with a 3D hull?.
Thanks, Newbie, Wesltlawn background before CAD was accepted.

[CGN]

There is no way to obtain the same surfaces from prolines (Basic version) to rhino, it is possible to export 3D dxf (Prolines to 3D Dxf), find in the manual how to do it, and use rhino to "skin" trough this sections and waterlines.

The other way is to forget about prolines bite the bullet and buy something like delftship or even probasic, you will waste so much time triying to re-create an exact model from prolines in rhino. prolines is a good software but without support for iges is just a PITA.

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CGN, thanks for your feedback. Delftship may be a good option although I hate to leave Prolines, good software and Vacanti has always been very responsive. Just can't see getting into Rhino developing hull, skins and rendering without a solid hydrostatics analysis behind.
Best

[CGN]

Hi FastRibs, I know what you mean, i'm an ex user of prolines (Basic Version) myself but is somewhere sitting on an obscure corner, good software but without support for iges it was hard to keep using it so i switched to Prosurf probably the only one that since the begining had the iges option on it's basic version and also it saves GHS files, and after that freeship now delftship, all the export options that you may need and easy to use.

But not everything is bulletproof, there is always some "tweak" here and there to do to a GHS file, but i have no doubt that delftship or prosurf for the price will save you a lot of time.

cheers