Creating Acrobat 3D files from Microstation - problems

I am using Microstation as my CAD platform. There are a number of ways I can create 3D files from within Microstation, but only one method seems to allow the transfer of the levels used in Microstation. I do this by opening Acrobat 3D, then importing the microstation 3D file. Doing this brings across all the Microstation level info into the model tree. That is perfect, BUT, the model is not rendering properly/fully in Acrobat.
The Microstation file is about 3MB in size and the created pdf file is 7MB in size.
Another method I've used is to export from with Microstation to a "u3d" file format, then import that file into Acrobat 3D. This method and a few others I have tried will import the 3D model, fully rendered without problem, but none of the levels are imported from Microstation. These files are about 1.5MB or less.
The problem is that it is important for my clients to be able to use the model tree to toggle various levels on and off. It is not practical for me to use the 3D Toolkit to group and rename elements to match the Microstation levels.
Can anyone help me here? I'm thinking there must just be a setting I need to toggle on and off somewhere to fix the problem.
I am using Microstation V8, Acrobat 3D Version 8, My workstation is dual processor @ 3 GHz and 2GB RAM.

Yes, all versions of Acrobat can do that.
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:54 PM, mariab59929580 <[email protected]>

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    o_element  = o_document->create_simple_element(
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                      value = 'some text'
                      parent = o_document ).
    o_streamfactory = o_ixml->create_stream_factory( ).
    o_ostream = o_streamfactory->create_ostream_itable( table = t_xml_table ).
    o_renderer = o_ixml->create_renderer( ostream  = o_ostream document = o_document ).
    o_renderer->render( ).
    v_xml_size = o_ostream->get_num_written_raw( ).
    CALL METHOD cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_download
      EXPORTING
        bin_filesize = v_xml_size
        filename     = 'C:a.xml'
        filetype     = 'BIN'
      CHANGING
        data_tab     = t_xml_table.

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