Linesplan from non Orca Hull

[Pat Tanner]

I have imported a hull surface from a 3D laser scan using Geomagic and would like to use Orca to generate the appropriate linesplans.
The problem is the hull surface from Geomagic is made up of several patches which Rhino sees as seperate surfaces.
When I generate the Orca limesplan it picks up lines for each patch/surface edge and includes thee in the linesplan.

I have tried merging the surfaces with Rhino and this will remove the lines, but I am unable to merge all the patches into a single surface

Is there a way to prevent Orca from detecting the surface edges, and only using its own sections when generating the linesplan?

Thanks
Pat

[lleibman]

Hi Pat,

Currently there is no way to tell Orca not to plot the surface edge curves in the lines drawing. The reason for including them is because in the typical case there are edge curves at places where you want to see the 3d curve like hull/deck edge and hull/transom edge curves.

You can select the unwanted edge curves and hide or delete them in the lines drawing. I can see how this might get tedious if you have a lot of them but perhaps after your merging process there might only be a few edges to hide.

We will give some thought to the problem for the future. We could have an option to not include edge curves although it would be an all or nothing proposition. We could also put the edge curves on their own layer so that it would be relatively easy to hide them (although again an all or nothing solution).

Larry