The array circular *14 works fine for me!
Then join all maybe 5 minutes on my very old computer :)
Here the file compressed of the result in 3dm format 3.2 meg
http://www.divshare.com/download/4787409-ec2




Then export format 3Ds 14 000 polys (so few facettes but I take not more for my oldy comput) then import in Sketchup then Podium