is a 3D design program which has been available since 1994. The software is used by designers for modeling 3D graphics for games and simulations - most notably it is used by the scenery creators at Laminar Research on the X-Plane (simulator)

Initially developed on the , the code was then ported to Silicon Graphics workstations which used the GL graphics library. At that time, the user interface was implemented using X-Window/Motif. A Linux port was released onto the internet in 1994 (the GL graphics were replaced with OpenGL). A windows port followed when the X-Window interface was dropped in favor of the portable Tcl/Tk scripting library.

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