You might want to check out Blender:

http://www.blender3d.com (follow the Blender Creator link).

The Blender Creator is free and there's a Linux version available. You 
can get to the download page more directly at:

http://www.blender.nl/download

The version I have is 2.14; they're at 2.22 as I write this. They've 
been working towards and emphasizing animation but I've used it to 
design and export mesh objects (using a Python script for exporting the 
objects as meshes to povray source files). Warning: the povray source 
files containing the mesh objects can get really big! You should be able 
to find the Python script (if it's not already included in the newest 
Blender version) somewhere in their knowledge base or resources links. 
You can also use a 3d converter program to take Blender output files 
such as .dxf and convert them to povray source files.

The Blender interface can be intimidating at first. I strongly recommend 
you check out the various tutorials out there on the web for it.

I don't know if it's the "best" but it does qualify as a 3d modeller for 
Linux ;)

-Roz

Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:

> In article <874### [at] ilyaofficelisgroupnet>, "Ilya"
> <ivg### [at] dragonlisgroupnet> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello, all!
>>
>>What is the best 3d modeller for linux could be used for povray 3.1?
>>
> 
>  afew years ago (in the breif 6 or 7 months that I ran windows after
> selling my beloved amiga, and before I knew I needed a real system) I
> trued a demo of a modler called Rhino.  I played with it for a few weeks,
> but never delved into any serious 3d stuff back then.
> 
> But it was pretty cool.
> 
> How does this help, well I guess it could run under wine on a linux box.
> 
>

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