The Sculpt Workspace contains one of the largest set of functions of any of the 3DCoat Workspaces. Many of these may, at first, seem obscure and hard to understand. This section will make these clear.

The Geometry Menu contains most of these functions, which include surface clean-up, creating proxy versions, resampling voxel resolution, voxel decimation, memory management, and many more.

Like most of the other major Tabs (or Rooms as they are also called), there is also an accompanying menu. We have already covered most of these options in previous sections. Any repeated functions are here only for your convenience. Let’s take a look at them:

Show statistics: Show many lesser known statistics of the current layer, scene statistics as volume, square, dimensions, holes count, etc
Define measurement units: Define measurement of units in real world scale, and how many voxels density per this axis.
Edit scene scale: Allows you to recompose your scene by shifting its overall location and scale on the global axis. You can edit scene scale that was defined when you imported the mesh in Sculpt room and pressed “Yes”.
Res+: Increases the resolution of the current object. Increasing the resolution will effectively double the amount of voxels the current object layer has. This allows for a layer to have much more detail at higher resolutions. You can view the resolution of a layer, in the VoxTree, directly before the layer’s name. If it has just the name then you will know that it is at it’s base resolution and has not been increased.
Resample: Allow upgrade or downgrade the current layer’s resolution.
Screen Space Subdivide: Subdivides the surface visible on the screen so that the triangles are approximately the specified pixel size in screen space.

Symm copy: Symmetrical copy. Symmetry must be active for this function to work. This tool uses the most recently painted side of the object as a source and copies the source features to the other side. If you have sculpted on one side of a volume object you can use this icon to copy all of that to the other side of the object. It works on any axis, so long as you have symmetry turned on along the preferred axis.

Retopo mesh > Sculpt mesh: Get Object From Retopo Workspace.
Paint mesh > Sculpt mesh: Get Object From Paint Workspace.
Take subdivided paint mesh into the sculpt room: .
Paint mesh > Subdivide > Sculpt mesh: Get Object From Paint Workspace subdividing before.
Multiple Res+:
Multi-smooth pose/freeze:
Merge Down: Merge this layer with the first visible layer below it.
Substract down: Substract this layer from the first visible layer below it.

Paint mesh > Subdivide > Sculpt mesh: Get Object From Paint Workspace subdividing before.

Only available for sculpt layers currently in Surface Mode.

Shell: Creates a hollow shell or skin of a designated thickness from the current voxel layer.
Clean Surface: Re-optimizes surface mesh structure.
Close holes: Heals any holes found in a surface. Very valuable for fixing imported scanned meshes.
Weld vertices: Welds any vertices occupying the same point in space.
Decimate: Performs an optimized reduction of polygons for the current layer.
Cleanup memory: Optimizes mesh memory allocation.
Remove Self Intersections: When 2 meshes intersect each other, this command will extract the intersecting surface from the current and designated layer placing this intersecting part on its own layer, while leaving the original layers intact.
Object-ify: Separate disconnected pieces. Any disconnected objects found on the same layer will be removed from this layer and placed on their own layers.

Clear: This command clears the current Layer in the VoxTree of all voxels. It is useful when you wish to keep the current Layer’s name and resolution but not the voxels. This will clear the selected object layer in the VoxTree of any voxels. It performs the same as the “Clear” tool on the left side tool bar in the Commands section.

Smooth all: This command uniformly smooths (or relaxes) all of the voxels of the currently selected object Layer in the VoxTree. Will uniformly smooth (or relax) all of the voxels of the currently selected object layer in the VoxTree.
Unhide all: Unhides any hidden voxels.
Invert hidden: Inverts any hidden voxels.
Delete hidden: Deletes any portions of the mesh that are currently hidden.
Object-ify hidden: Separate hidden part. Creates a new Layer in the VoxTree and places the previously hidden voxels into the newly created Layer.

Visibility/Ghosting: Hide and ghost voxel layers selection.

• Visibility and Ghosting Options: This video takes an updated look at Visibility and Ghosting Options.
  
• Unghost_all:
  
• Ghost_all:
  
• Invert_ghosted:
  
• Isolate:
  
• Toggle Visibility: Toggle current volume visibility.
  
• Isolate Ghosting:
• Toggle Ghosting:

Toggle proxy mode: Toggles on/off proxy mode.

• Uncache visible volumes: Will recover the high resolution voxel sculpt previously cached, into voxel surface mode. (This is a redundant feature). Using Toggle proxy mode or the icon for said feature, will achieve the same result).
  
• Cache visible volumes: Caches the current high resolution voxel sculpt. (This is a redundant feature) using Toggle proxy mode or the icon unit scale.
  
• Clear all caches: Clears all cache information from memory, thus releasing it for other tasks. Cannot be undone.
  

Proxy Method: Selects the resolution of the proxy mesh and how downgraded the mesh is (You can downgrade from 2x, 4x and 8x).

Highlight: Toggles highlighting, if it is turned on for your selected VoxTree object will be highlighted a different color. This is a toggle for highlighting, if turned on your currently selected object layer will be highlighted a different color. When turn off, there will be no visible change.

Cast shadows: Enables shadow casting based on the global light inside the viewport. It is purely aesthetic.
Incremental render: Renders only the parts of the object that have changed since your previous render, thus giving a large boost in performance. This option is off when shadows are on, as shadows are dynamic and change the appearance of the rendered object. Having this option on, will only render parts of the object that have change since your last render, giving a large boost in performance. This option is turn off when shadows are turned on, as shadows are dynamic and change the look of the object for rendering.
Accurate smoothing: Provides more accurate smoothing, at the expense of performance. This provides more accurate smoothing at the cost of performance.
Stroke expansion: (Grow on pen motion) When this is enable, only relevant operations are performed unless the pen is in motion.

Useful when you need a reference. Use retopo mesh for Paint2D, Sphere or Snake tool in Sculpt room. Button showing polygonal mesh in Sculpt room added.

This is convenient to use as reference:

This menu has many functions that are unique to the Sculpt Room, and can only be accessed by RMB clicking on an object in the VoxTree or directly on an object in the 3D viewport. Let’s take a look at these functions.

If any VoxTree objects are hidden, this command will make them visible.

If any children VoxTree objects are hidden of the object you RMB click on, invoking this command will unhide them.

Deletes the VoxTree object.

Creates a child VoxTree Object.

Renames the object.

Decreases the objects size, but also increases the density two fold.

Increases the objects size, but also decreases the density two fold.

Sets the VoxTree objects space to be set to world space, at 0 on X, Y & Z axes.

Transform scale along axis and make axis orthogonal to make space uniform.

This function allows you to change the polygonal count of the entire selected object. You can even specify an exact polygonal count with this function.

Allows you to duplicate the geometry in a VoxTree object radially, with any number of slice counts to the array. The geometry will remain in the same VoxTree object it was originally in. The geometry can also be created as instances to their own objects in the VoxTree, instead of the original by turning on “Instance” in the Tool Options panel. Let’s look at the tool options.

To X/Y/Z: Aligns the Rod Transform gizmo to the specified axis.
Begin/End: Allows you to specify the exact coordinates numerically of the beginning and end of the Rod Transform gizmo.
Gizmo Length: Numerically specify the length of the Rod Transform gizmo.
Screen Based: Sets the size of the gizmo to be relative to the viewport.
Array Count: The number of radial slices of the array.
Instance: Create instanced VoxTree objects instead of duplicating the geometry to the same object.
Extrude: Perform an extrusion on an object.

This function allows you to thicken a VoxTree object. Handy for imported objects that have open areas (not water tight).

Closes any holes that may be in the current VoxTree object.

Creates an object in the VoxTree for each separated piece of geometry, and places the geometry into those objects.

Saves the current VoxTree object as it’s own .3B file.

Saves the current VoxTree object and it’s children objects as a .3B file.

Imports another 3B file into the current scene.

Lets you edit the selected VoxTree object’s current shader.

Two functions reside in this menu.

Import Point Cloud: Prompts with a file select to choose a point cloud source on disk, then activates the Import tool.
Import Object: Prompts with a file selector to choose a mesh file on disk, then activates the Import tool.

Various functions for Exporting reside in this menu.

Export Scene: Exports a multi-object file. Each object in your scene will be a mesh object in your exported file.
Export selected Object: Exports only the selected object to a file.
Save to Meshes Panel: Saves a preset file to disk and automatically places it into the Meshes panel.
Save to Splines Panel: Saves a preset file to disk and automatically places it into the Splines panel.
Export to UE5.
Export to UE5 as…
Edit UE5 script.

Runs the Auto Retopology routine to create an automatically generated mesh with automatically generated UV maps, using 3DCoat proprietary GUUV unwrapping method or another unwrapping algorithm. If you choose you can also specify guides for the edge loops, and even paint areas where you wish more polygonal density to be. You can also specify hard edge options.
Read more about AUTOPO by clicking the name above or reading this guide.

Retopo via decimation
Retopo via decimation, visible objects

Activates the Transform tool for the object.

If an object is above or below 0 on the Y axis, this command will bring the lowest point of the object to 0 on the Y axis.

Similar to the Snap to Ground function, by moving an object’s lowest point to 0 on the Y axis, it also will rotate the object when the center mass is not resting on the ground. Imagine an object falling through physical means and coming to a rest on the ground.

Contains all of the cloning/duplication functions. let’s look at each of these functions.

Clone Instance: Creates an instance of the object. Uses less memory than duplicating.
Clone: Duplicates the object. The object will be in memory.
Instance w/ Symmetry: Creates an instances across the symmetry plane you have currently active.
Clone & Degrade: Duplicates the object and decreases the resolution by half.
Clone Space Density: Duplicates the object’s density (or resolution) and all transformations (translations, rotations & scaling), but does not duplicate the contents of the object.
Flip: Allows you to flip the object on the X, Y & Z axes. This menu also contains a command for flipping the polygon normals of the mesh.

Combines the current layer with all of it’s child layers.

Bakes vertex colors from other VoxTree objects to the current one. If the object is in Voxel Mode then it will automatically be converted to Surface Mode.

Merges all visible VoxTree objects into one object.

Merges all the children of the selected layer, but not the selected not.

Duplicates the object and adds the polygons to another object.

Additive boolean operation. Adds the polygons from the selected object to another object, and deletes the current object from the VoxTree.

A subtractive boolean operation. Removes the polygons from the selected object from another object, and deletes the current object from the VoxTree.

An intersection boolean operation. Keeps only the polygons of the current object where they overlap another object. The selected object is deleted from the VoxTree.

An intersection boolean operation, similar to but the exact opposite of Intersect With. Removes only the polygons of the current object where they overlap another object. All objects are retained (not deleted).

A split boolean operation. Separates only the polygons of the current object where they overlap another object and creates a new object in the VoxTree for the polygons that were split from the original.

Assign or change the parent of the selected object to another object in the VoxTree.

MultiRes Decimation: This video covers the new poly reduction method (decimation) in the Multi Res toolset/workflow.