Great an nice TIG! as always !! i hope soon they will be an parametric array plugn for sketchupp !!
i hope that somone upload those file to can speed learning )
There was a great 3ds max plugin from Simlab soft called Simlab max to skp exporter that was great for even complex models with excellent results but they took it down for whatever reason. Perhaps contacting the author at Simlab would be helpful