I know that in older versions of Blender that 3DS did (if you kept your textures, in JPG form, in the same directory as the 3DS geometry model), but import failure rate is seemingly much higher with the newer versions of Blender (2.4x) using 3DS than OBJ. Impress everyone with a 3D particle scene with Blender and Three. I can't recall if OBJ always held texturing mapping once it go to Blender. If your model seems partially invisible or hopelessly 'clipped' in Blender, you may find it impossible to manipulate without going back to SU, scaling everything down to a tenth (or smaller) its original size in whatever unit system you were using, and re-exporting. The other issues is a limitation (in terms of Blender 'units') on the effective size of the model. Sketchup and Blender are entirely different. Also, you might want to explode your components first in SU.sometimes only one instance will appear in Blender, or instances that have been scaled/rotated in SU may revert in Blender to their original scale/rotation.

I recall getting the best result for geometry going to Blender using OBJ.I was really enthused about the node-based renderer, although I've been sidetracked by other software since.

Sketchup to blender