Steven,

Lots of fancy words in there, I'm not but a humble pirate

but that sounds like it could work, and ProE could definitely do it, from what I know of the software.

Solidworks is good from a small parts to assembly type project where you need to do a lot of prototyping with a 3d printer before you take stuff to the shop.

I particularly liked the setup we had in the lab at school where I just exported the shape to the 3d prototyper and 4 hours later I had an exact resin replica of the part that was on my screen.

Not sure that it would be suited to hull design though.