Hi Gord,
re:
> I see no other way of getting the frame data in other than tracing it with the freeform curve tool?
Yes, that's correct you would need to trace that, there isn't anything like a bitmap image to structured curve automatic tracer if that's what you mean.
Do you happen to also have any 3D exterior photos? The part that is not so clear to me is the stern. It's going to be difficult to make the stern station to be such a shorter curve than the rest. That will add stress to a loft surface when one section is suddenly significantly different in size from all the others. So one thing to do in that type of situation is to make the initial surface to be extended so that it is more regular and then you cut pieces of that extended surface away using Edit > Trim or booleans. You usually want to do that kind of extended and regularized surface with cuts later on rather than trying to build the initial surface directly to an irregular boundary.
- Michael
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