Hi
Apologies but I'm totaly new to 3D software and I'm trying to get my head around everything.

What I would like to know, if anyone can give me an idiots guide, is how to plot the co-ordinates I have for a boats hull that I have taken off a real one.
These were obtained by placing a measuring stick alongside the hull at predetermined points and then measuring in from the stick to the hull, again at predetermined measurements down the stick.

I'm hoping that this will then give me a 3D image of the boat.

Another problem I have, is that the hull has had a bit of a battering, so the cordinate points will not produce a 'fair' curve.
So I would also like to know if I'm able to 'Fair' the curve.

In the old days they would bend a thin strip of wood around certain points, that were marked on a grid that was drawn on the floor and this would then give them a nice 'faired' curve. This was called 'lofting'.

Many thanks for any help anyone can give.