Attached Link: http://www.3d.yucom.be

As a task for school, I had to write a paper about freeware/shareware 3d modeling programs, together with my fellow student Bart Kools. The result, a 135-pages long pdf-file is ready for download at my site. Too bad for most of you, it's written in Dutch, but things like system requirements, import/export possibilities, available tutorials, modeling tools, file size, etc. are in English anyway. There's also a screenshot for every program, so that also tells a lot. If you don't want to download the paper itself, you can still check the page where I have gathered the links with the download URL's for every program. BTW If somebody is interested in translating the whole thing, don't hesitate ;o)

Looks cool. Certainly looks thorough. I wish I could read Dutch. :)

Useful even without the translation, but I hope you or some kind soul will translate at least the conclusions to English. Saw lots of apps I tried and some new ones I have managed to miss. Thanks. jon

 
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Thank you..

You're welcome ;o)

BTW, MikeJ, couldn't you add more links to some of the more interesting free modellers (Wings 3D, Pro-Desktop, SoftCAD 3D Lite, Cybermotion, etc.) on the top the pages of this forum? That way, a lot more people might see what's available.

I've been meaning to do that, heyse, and I will.

Great!

OK, I added Wings to the list. I couldn't really find out anything about Pro-Desktop, though. SoftCAD 3D Lite is US $199.00 it seems, and Cybermotion appears to be shareware. if you can provide some URL's, I'd be happy to add them, but not too many, or else the box takes up too much space. I could get rid of the double spacing, but it seems to make it easier to read that way.

All the URL's are on my site. Perhaps you could add Marbleclay. Blender is also still available on an ftp-site. I don't know, there are a lot of useful programs, it just depends on what you're looking for.

Attached Link: http://www.3d.yucom.be

I forgot the link

Thanks again! I'll add Marble Clay. When I finish the big list, I hope to have every program known to all up there, but that will be on a separate page. I had been sort of pushing Marble Clay on people over a year ago, because I thought it was the best freeware program I had seen, and the inventor responds quickly, although his English is weak. Pretty cool interface, too.

As I said, all links are on my page, but if you ask about my personal favorites, I think one cannot forgot openFX. But you're absolutely right, setting up a seperate page is way better than adding more programs and links to the annoucement box.

the blender ftp link on your page appears to have blown up. click on the 'here' link and it goes to a directory that no longer exists.

Hmmm, I noticed what's wrong: I must have hit spacebar after entering link. I fixed it; it's working now. Thanks for letting me this know.