Hi Will - I don't think that it is being discontinued, more like being subsidized by Microsoft and now freely available.

Peter - I downloaded it to see if it would work well as an option to render MoI files. It looks like it could possibly be, but I can't seem to find any way to load standard mesh file types like an .obj file.

After a bit of puzzled poking around, I found a small "File" menu in the upper-right corner, but it doesn't seem to have Wavefront .obj files listed in the file drop-down there.

Do you know if this free version has had file import capabilities removed from it?

- Michael