How to make a "sail" component for the wind plane by rotating a 1-station component 90 degrees:

Model Converter (MC) can rotate a single-station component 90 degrees so that it becomes a profile looking just like the original station. To do this use,

MC infile.gf (inpart\incomp) outfile.gf (outpart\outcomp) /PROFILE

This process does not preserve indentations in the sides of the station and translate them into indentations in the ends of the profile. But you can repeat the process for any number of stations (in separate components) which will become profile components of the SAIL part.

The usual way of looking at a station has the negative (port) side on the left, while the usual way of looking at a profile has the negative (forward) side on the right. Therefore, if a station is drawn looking like the profile it will turn out to be reversed longitudinally after the rotation. This can be avoided by drawing the station as if it were the profile seen from the port side, or it can be corrected later using the REVERSE feature in Part Maker.

It is best to give the station location a slightly nonzero value (note that the station location will become the transverse offset of the sail component). If fitting to the deck is necessary this ensures that the fit operation will work properly.

SE or PM can be used to create the single-station component(s).

See the run file makesail.rf for an example.

The result looses some of the detail because of the sampling, but it should have nearly the same wind plane characteristics.