First Project Help

[OneFootBazooka]

Alright so, I'm working on my first custom story and I'm recreating a house. I'm trying to put a lot of detail into it and need kitchen, bathroom, etc models. I've searched for about 3 days and found very minimal information and this is where I am at the moment. I got 3ds max with the OpenCollada plugin to export models as ".dae" format. When I try to import the mesh into ModelEditor, nothing shows up. I'm not sure what steps need to be done. Like I said, there is very minimal information (at least for a noob) on the steps needed to do this. I've looked up and down for videos on youtube but there's nothing. Any help would be appreciated.

Also, I did read a step by step procedure on the wiki but I can't go any further than exporting from 3ds max.