.3ds model looses its color

by raghu » Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:11 am

I'm using sweet Home 3D Version 4.2. I've downloaded .3ds models from the site http://archive3d.net/. when they are importing in sweet home the color of the models disppears and some models appears in splitted manner i.e ( a gate appears in three different parts)

whereas .shd files are importing correct.

why this is happening?