My 2cents here as I am not an architect, but  my main modeling app is Rhino and I never use
.3ds meshing for export: I use  Wavefront(.obj )
Additionnally Rhino produces a very clean UV map with .obj  and you avoid the 65k poly limit
IMHO Vue handles .obj much better than other formats.
(Rhino offers over 20 export options among which .lwo  and .wrl which are also accepted in Vue)