5.1. Set Tool Size

Drag to set the brush size for Sculpting and Mesh tools.

While using sculpting tools the brush size is shown as a dotted ring in the 3D view. The solid inner ring shows the falloff of the current brush - with a small ring showing a spike shaped brush, and a large ring a blunt flat brush.

Shortcut

Hold Ctrl with a sculpting tool selected and drag to set the tool size.

5.2. Add

Sculpt by adding volume to create bumps.

5.3. Sub

Sculpt by subtracting volume to create dents.

5.4. Clay

Sculpt by adding volume to create smooth bumps.
Smooths the surface as it sculpts like adding clay worms and blending them in.
N.B. For best results increase the intensity to add more clay.

5.5. Clay Sub

Remove volume from surface while smoothing.

5.6. Groove

Cuts into the surface to a fixed depth.

5.7. Layer

Adds to the surface but with a fixed maximum offset. Right mouse button to erase.

To apply changes and start working on a new Layer, use the menu "Surface/Set Sculpt Target"

5.8. Eraser

Clears sculpting done with the Layer brush reverting to the previous unsculpted surface.

5.9. Step

Cuts into the surface on one side of the stroke and builds up the other side to make a step.
N.B. The direction of the stroke matters, for a step in opposite direction reverse the direction of your stroke.

5.10. Pinch

Paint to Tighten and Shrink the surface along the stroke.

5.11. Inflate

Sculpt by inflating the surface. More rounded effect than 'Add'.

5.12. Deflate

Sculpt by deflating the surface. More rounded effect than 'Sub'.

5.13. Fill

Fills dips and holes in a model.

5.14. Flatten

Paint to flatten the surface.


Use the Right Mouse Button to draw with the Flatten Tool to Flatten to View.
Paint to flatten the surface towards the current viewport.

5.15. Noise

Paint to Roughen up the surface with random displacements.

N.B. For the roughest result you will need to disable the automatic polish that smooths out the other sculpting tools.
Just untick Polish in the Sculpt Tool Controls.

5.16. Rounded

The the surface under the brush into a spherical shape.
Useful for making parts of the model rounder.

5.17. Flattened

Smooth the surface to a flattened shape.
With a low intensity is very helpful at softly smoothing out curved surfaces too.

5.18. Curved

Smooth the surface with a smooth curved form.

5.19. Pull Tubes

Drag out worm shaped extrusions from the mesh surface.

5.20. Custom Brush

Choose a (small) image to use as a stamp on your model. Click to place stamps of your image onto the mesh's surface.
You can reverse the effect and switch to an alternative stamping mode (Slice) in the options below the toolbox.

5.21. Smooth

Paint to smooth the surface. Elastic effect will tend to shrink the surface.

5.22. Polish

Paint to polish the surface. Improve surface curvature with little change to volume.
Polish has a more subtle effect than Smooth, fixing small defects while leaving the overall shape intact.

5.23. Paint Surface Colour

Colour the mesh vertices directly - does not need texture maps.
N.B. See the Painting Tools to alternatively paint texture maps.

Object shown above in wireframe (Press A) to demonstrate that surface colour is set at the corners of each triangle on the mesh. This is different to texture mapping which sets a colour at each pixel of the texture image.
When Automatic Subdivision is turned on Curvy will add mesh detail where you use a small brush to paint the surface.

5.24. Smooth Surface Colour

Smooth the vertex colours.

5.25. Pull

Drag part of a mesh to move it.
Use the Sculpt Tool Size to change the size of the effected area.

5.26. Local Rotate

Twists the mesh around a point as you drag.
Use the Sculpt Tool Size to change the size of the effected area.

6.1. Smooth

Smooths the entire surface of the mesh.

6.2. Relax

Spreads the vertices of a mesh more evenly over the surface while trying to keep the same overall shape.

6.3. Polish

Smooths the curvature of a mesh making the surface more continuous.

6.4. Mirror

Forces the right side of the model to be a mirror image of the left side.

6.5. Reverse Surface

Flips the surface normals. Useful if your mesh looks inside out or hollow after a mirror operation.

6.6. Explode

Split all separate parts of a mesh into separate objects. Useful for unpacking objects you've previously Joined together.

6.7. Detach

Extract the Masked part of a Mesh into a new Object.

6.8. Join

Collapse multiple objects into a single Mesh. Also useful for Applying certain effects like Curvy Maps.

6.9. Weld to Parent

Group two objects - Select the Child and pick Weld to Parent to combine them together. Cuts out the overlapping parts and stitches the holes together.

6.10. Stitch Holes

In a Mesh with holes, adds new faces to join the holes together. Mask the area around each hole to focus the effect only on the masked holes.

6.11. Bevelled Stitch

Joins pairs of holes in a mesh with a neat bevelled border on the edges of the newly connected parts.

6.12. Cap Holes

Finds all the holes in the Mesh and fills them in with new faces.

6.13. Voxel Merge Group

Create a new smooth skin over all the objects in a group.

6.14. Trim Surface

Adds a Trim Action to this model. Now you can draw curves and the surface of the model will be clipped by the drawn curves. Try drawing from different view angles to control the effect of the trim curve.

6.15. Reduce Buttons

Simplify the mesh to use less faces.