Alex
that's sort of what I do for obj models I make in Rhino, anyway ;)
since you can only assing materials to individual objects in Vue, if you break it all apart, you can thus give each part appropriate mats.

Though, many duplicated same objects, say a balustrade on a railing, I just join into one mesh to save hassles, and UVMap them all to tbe the same :p

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