Hope you are doing clean sketchup models, the ones I am getting from people are crap, and they turned me from a person who says max and sketchup are both great, to saying sketchup is shit. Not because of sketchup, it s a great product, but because of the output to max and how faces get flipped, and 3d trees have a million separate polygons that take hours to delete in max.
Max is better and cleaner modelling, the marketing they did for sketchup is the only reason it's so widespread, that and the price and ease of use.
The 2 materials per face sucks. every model I get I need to spend hours selecting faces and reassigning materials per face.
the pipeline sketchup to max is shit.
I now think every client who sends me sketchup files is mainly trying to stab me int he heart.