Which is the best

Having wasted a fair amount of time ( NO, LOTS OF TIME ) and money in trying for a mesh / vertex / game level creator, is there a good, stable program I can use that exports to 3DS and Basic3D.
Thanks.
Dicon
who is really getting very ****** off with the whole time wasting exersize.

I would say Milkshape3d I use it all the time ( www.milkshape3d.com )

What have you tried already?

Only gripe i had with milkshape was group names not being exported correctly.