Collada Import in 2.76 Just got blender and was going to get started trying my hand on some .dae files, however after trying several times to import them, nothing seems to happen. I get nothing. Am I doing something wrong, some settings need to be in place before doing a file>import>collada?

Any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.
It could be that the geometry content of your DAE file is a type that the Blender importer does not understand.  I was trying to read in Collada files that were made from triangle strips and I got the same result.  No error message, no visible geometry, no objects in the scene tree.  The files passed the consistency checker with no errors.  These were files I was generating myself, so I was able to change the geometry from triangle strips to triangles and it worked fine.  I am using an older version of Blender, 2.69.

When I searched for information on Blender importing Collada triangle strips I found old reports of the importer not working, but no recent reports on working/not working.