Import .ply work

That’s got it. I think I was just using the wrong type of files.
With the silly vripped reconstruction it worked fine.
Vripped reconstruction:
happy_recon.tar.gz (14 MB compressed, 56 MB uncompressed)
Inventor and VRML versions of this model are available from Georgia

Yes, works like a charm! Thanks for the efforts and help!

Cheers; 'Best,

shankar swamy