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Hello Gurus,
I am considering starting a 40k project. It will be pretty new and big for me. Although I am an intermediate level modeler / painter, my sculpting experience is low. My scratch builds look ok, but lack in repeatability and uniformness. I am looking to start a counts as 40k army that I can build and paint slowly while still fielding my competitive Orks, Sallies, Eldar and Tau armies.

The lack of repeatability of my kit bashes is what draws me to 3d printing. I have bought some mek gunz (lobbas) from shapeways and a guy on this site for a bargain, I am looking to start trying my hand at it.

QUESTION:
What is a good user friendly program that i can use to upload my own designs to Shapeways? I have experience with Sketch Up for construction projects and landscape design. Can I use that?

Whatever exports wavefront object files (.OBJ), or .stl files should do the job.

So long as you create closed hulls (no open faces) you should be fine, and make sure you tesselate to triangles on export.

Ok thanks.