There are two features in Edit line menu, which may help much.

Trace line - a bit fuzzy, but may help.

Convert to curve - you may only click, click, click on contour of section and creating the Bezier's curves will do this feature.

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28. 1. 2015 v 17:15, Bill Gee <bgee@campercaver.net>:

It's a great deal of work, but I think the only way to really deal with it is 
to build scraps of all the cross sections.