I love sketchup too, but I've had no success with the converting. I got it to work on some smaller projects, but the geometry always wound up wrong, aka holes disappearing into the surfaces I cut them out of and such. As for textures... I never had even one texture transfer, the level always just became gray colored... sorry... I'll try your way of doing it as soon as I have time, probably this weekend. I'm really interested in seeing how this works.