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Am happy to announce that the latest X3D-Edit has been formally released in the NetBeans plugin center, approved for NetBeans 25, 24 and 23.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof">X3D-Edit 4.0 Authoring Tool for Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics</div>
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<div class="elementToProof">X3D-Edit is a free, open-source Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics authoring tool for simple high-quality authoring, editing, import/export, validation and viewing of X3D scenes.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit" id="OWA12cd6b20-c323-8ffc-2e54-cfc539e82ca5" class="OWAAutoLink">https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit</a></div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/#Downloads" id="OWA7e5fe837-a224-5393-22e6-41cc83bdeb14" class="OWAAutoLink">https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/#Downloads</a></div>
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X3D-Edit has produced thousands of X3D models and has a (metric) ton of features. The NetBeans site currently reports over 24,000 downloads. Automatic updates typically occur quarterly via NetBeans, intermediate releases are also available on SourceForge,
with link found in the Downloads section above.</div>
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We are currently testing under Windows and macOS. It would be great if someone might test on Linux, volunteer(s) are welcome.</div>
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Thanks to Web3D Consortium for hosting X3D-Edit open source on the Web3D GitHub site.</div>
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Have fun with X3D-Edit! 🙂 👍</div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">all the best, Don</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 9pt;">X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics https://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman</span></p>
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