3d Model conversion orn Mac OSX - help

Hello again,
I have been away a while teachng Blender class and Blendering on projects…

My upcoming class project will have my students build a 3D Rube-Goldberg type machine and animate it. If anyone has modeled/animated such a contraption - I would love to show it to the class. Might make a good contest too.

I want them to use existing 3D models and am looking for the best solutions to convert/import models on Mac OSX.
By the way -
This site has been around for quite some time - worth mentioning again though. It was sort of burried when Viewpoint began selling models.

(“The Original Public 3D Archive”)

http://avalon.viewpoint.com/

import export script is in the python forum.
look under me or jms name for import export…

^o^ woo OSX