Will.
Planking a hull in 3d is a bit of a problem. It took me a while to get this far. Welcome any easy solutions to get "real" effects.

Steve.
I have had serious problems bringing Iges,3dm and 3ds from MoI into Carrara and, after much testing, had decided to stick with obj. I will try out your adjustment settings to see if that works/helps
With the settings I had I still had to take the deck into the Vertex room and give it a smoothing setting of 3! Though I am still a learner in this complex modelling stuff. More research/testing.

Thanks both..