Aha, Success! I do believe that 3dcoat will do what i need. Exporting a finely diced STL was very staight forward and took no learning curve. Importing will take a little intro work to the app. got a basic result with little to know investigation. I will refine it with just a bit of classroom on my part.

Seems for me the hardest part is learning that it is in "Modes". Like "when does it stop being a mesh" and when to do the appropriate subdivision during import. Just a stage of the model and the 3dcoat terminology for actions....I could also just dice it up more with MoI also. Will do tests to check the size issues of the model with either way...

I've only got one initial complaint about the software and developer, but will use it anyway...

Thanks for the input on this!