Strange error while importing Mesh

hi! I suggest you looking at this tutorial.

The blend that you shared is missing groups like a rig for example, and all the lights.. that i don't think those do something but shows that things have been deleted or have never been there. Export a base game item, and append the objects you need like how it's shown in the tutorial. Also, get used to match the original groups. Also, the UV maps have to be changed to uv_0.

Hi,
matching the mesh groups as shown in the tutorial. If you take a look at the item used in the tutorial, you can see that it has two mesh groups: The Studio_mesh_0 with the cut number 0 which is the shadow mesh and the Studio_mesh_1 with the cut number 1 which is the actual item. Most (but not all) sims item have at least these two meshes and in most (but not all) cases cut 0 is the shadow mesh. It is best to clone an item that has a similar number and similar type of meshes as the item you wish to create, because otherwise you will have to either reduce the number of groups in your own item or hide some of the original ones. In any case you have to make sure that the groups of your mesh match those they replace in the EA item, that is: If in the EA item the shadow mesh has cut 0, yours will have to have it too - if your mesh does not have a shadow mesh, you will still need something on cut 0 which is not your main item - otherwise things won't work and you will get an error message. The tutorial explains it rather well, I think.

The mesh is fubar for some reason, it has way to many poly's, (43,000 is about 40.000 to many) However it has some weird issue. I tried to export into 3ds max to try and have a look at it. I tried fbx as I normally do when I export from blender and all I got was a empty file once I tried to open in in max. I then exported it as a obj, and upon importing I got this error -
error in file: meshName = shapenaMe

So I googled it and got the 3dsmax help desk
Issue:

When importing a .obj file in 3ds Max the following error appears:

error in file: meshName = shapeName


If you click through the error(s) you will eventually lead to a "nothing to import" message.


Causes:
The issue is due to the object containing 1 or 2 point polygons which are theoretically illegal.
Solution:
Open the original file in the software that created it and remove any occurrences of 1 or 2 point polygons.

Alternatively you can open the .obj file in a text editor and delete any lines starting with "l" ( L character). For example:

l -2 -1

Keep in mind that although this may allow you to import the object, there's no guarantee that the object will be remain acceptable in terms of the mesh.

What it means by 1 or 2 point polygons are I have no idea

Re up the package with the 1 and 2 points removed and Ill see if max still spits it out. If I can get it in there I may be able to force max to fix it (may not be able to either)

Nope got in max, back in blender, same error when importing