dont know if people still need this, but i created a maya solution with a friend,
its far from perfect but it does the job for now:
get the 3dvia program from this website:
http://dassault-syst...former.com/2.3/
and use this python script in maya to load the *.3dxml file:
http://www.perryleijten.com/download/3dxmlImport.py
cheers