Blender has a very poor COLLADA support, I had a lot of problems using BLENDER and COLLADA plugin.
Try to import f40 to 3dsmax thru collada, and then export f40 to any other format compatible with blender.
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Blender has a very poor COLLADA support, I had a lot of problems using BLENDER and COLLADA plugin.
Try to import f40 to 3dsmax thru collada, and then export f40 to any other format compatible with blender.