Im testing with USD and works very similar to Datasmith, I have a lot of object that are Instances in Maya, and they export this way to UE using this method
EDIT: USD is changing the PIVOT to the world center instead of their original pivot point 
Im testing with USD and works very similar to Datasmith, I have a lot of object that are Instances in Maya, and they export this way to UE using this method
EDIT: USD is changing the PIVOT to the world center instead of their original pivot point