Another wonderful tool has entered the VRML, X3D, Web3D arena: VRMLMerge. And the best part is it's free for personal use. Commercial users are asked to contact the author for monetary arrangements and licensing.

The Pacoima Ranch development team has compared the code coming out of VRMLMerge with the code coming out of X3d-edit and actually likes the code from VRMLMerge better. It's a little lighter and didn't junk up the header with tons of unneeded and optional empty coding.

Be sure to have a recent JRE from Sun installed, it needs it to run. The design team never could get it to run in Linux, but Linux is a known weakness for them, it's used primarily just to test Konqueror for HTML conformancy. Hopefully more advanced Linux users can get it to work easily using the instructions on the VRMLMerge homesite.

Getting it to work in Windows wasn't easy either. The design team finally settled on creating a webpage to hold the applet. This works and is very easy. First download the jar file, unzip it, place it into a folder then download this file and place it in the folder. Alternately, you may bookmark the previous link, it is planned to keep the frontend online permanently as a VRML and X3D service.