AC11 to SKP to 3D Warehouse problem

[Anonymous]

I have been trying to put a current project model into GE.
A fairly simple block of apartments but heavily detailed.
So I have made a stripped down, racing copy with all the non essential elements stripped out and many of the remaining layers closed off.
All that is effectively left are the external walls, major floor slabs and the roof constructions.
The AC11 to SKP to 3DW system seems to work but after 20 minutes of file rebuilding and transmission, all I get is a one line error message that the file size has to be less than 10Mb.
No indication as to whether this is still 100Mb, or 10.1Mb.
It is not a major project and therefore it opens the question, if GS have gone to the trouble to implement the interface, how come it is effectively unusable for even a modest project?
The polycount is now less than 40k, having started at over 200k and is devoid of internal fittings, doors and plumbing. Nothing more to remove other than the shell itself.

So, suggestions on how to make this functional, please.
Also, is there any way to determine the actual failed file size at 3DW?

Lastly, is there any way to export the AC11 directly to SKP, so it can be modified in SU or simply emailed to a client without using 3DW?

[Djordje]

A shot in the dark: did you kill all the door handles, and set all the doors and windows to Simple? Check the polycount then.

[Anonymous]

Not only killed the handles but removed the internal doors and a lot of other stuff too.

Can get to just below 30k polys but it is having an unacceptable visual impact. At 31k, looks good and does an adequate job on my pc version.

Unfortunately, this is still not getting under the 10Mb limit. No idea how far out it is.

[Dennis Lee]

The way to goto SKP for me is to save as 3ds file, with the "Merge Coplanar Faces" option checked, then import from Sketch Up.

FYI, I had a 50,000 polycount model that was 4M in AC, went to 2M in 3ds, then after import and save to SKP, ended up being 6M.