I know this is old but I had the same issue, you need to make your symbol field contain the file name only (so "Model.3ds" or "Model.dae" needs to just be "Model") don't include the extension. Unfortunately, this is as far as I've gone. I can import the models and they end up on top of each other at 0,0. The models won't actually go to the points I'm wanting them to reference. All the data is in the same projection, the correctly named points and models just aren't syncing up.
... View more