does anyone know a free 3d modeling program i could download and how to load the saved files from it into an opengl program?

Check out the folowing posts on this forum for some answers.

One way of adding objects to your source
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http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=31235

Free 3D modeling program
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http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/ms3d
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=31252

Hope that helped some.

Allmight