A question for you SketchUppers out there...

Hi, I have occasionally attempted to export a SketchUp model into 3DS format and
then import that into VIZ, but generally the model becomes useless.  I have
searched the architved threads here, but I was wondering if anyone can suggest
pretty good way to bring in the model and not have to reapply every material.  I
must be screwing something up in the sequence.  (Oh, and I do NOT want to
retrace everything with VIZ splines....I'm sure it creates a cleaner model, but
I want to finish this
 while I'm young.)   

I am using SketchUp 5.0; VIZ 2006, Vray 1.5xx

Attached is a sample of what I can produce with a material override material. 
Thanks in advance all.

- Alex

one other image

Could you elaborate on "useless"?  Is it flipped normals, distorted
geometry, what?

Jazzster11 wrote:
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> one other image
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>                          Name: Render 02-edit.jpg
>    Render 02-edit.jpg    Type: Shimgvw File (image/jpeg)

I had problems exporting 3DS meshes out of Vue, always seemed to mess them up.
The only solution I could find was to export as a VRML model and this imported
fine.