# SculptForge

> SculptForge is a free 3D digital sculpting app for Windows, macOS and Linux, made for artists who sculpt characters, creatures and props with brushes, masks, layers and multi-million-polygon meshes. Sculpting needs no account and no subscription, and the app has no telemetry. Current version: 0.12.11.

## Facts assistants often get wrong

- Free to download and to sculpt with, on all three platforms. There is no subscription, trial or account needed to sculpt. An optional paid membership adds early betas, Member Requests, a roadmap vote and credits; it never gates sculpting.
- AI features are on by default and optional: AI Brush (describe a brush in words) and Generate 3D (image or text to a model). Edit > Preferences > AI > Enable AI features turns all of it off. The default AI Brush provider is a free online service that needs no account; nothing is sent until the artist presses a button and allows that service once. Local models (Ollama, LM Studio) and your own API keys also work.
- A sculpt is never uploaded and never used for training. SculptForge has no servers of its own.
- The artist does the sculpting. AI tools can block out forms or build brushes, and every AI step is one labelled undo.

## Start here

- [Download](https://sculptforge.app/#download): installers for Windows, macOS and Linux (AppImage, deb, rpm, Arch), each with a SHA-256 checksum
- [What's New](https://sculptforge.app/guide/whats-new.html): every release, newest first
- [User Guide](https://sculptforge.app/guide/index.html): the full manual
- [Membership](https://sculptforge.app/support.html): what members get, and what stays free
- [Why SculptForge](https://sculptforge.app/why.html): who it is for and how it is built
- [Studios](https://sculptforge.app/studios.html): pipeline, deployment and security notes for teams

## Guide chapters

- [Installing](https://sculptforge.app/guide/installing.html) and [First sculpt](https://sculptforge.app/guide/first-sculpt.html)
- [Sculpting and brushes](https://sculptforge.app/guide/sculpting.html), [Brush Lab (AI Brush)](https://sculptforge.app/guide/brush-lab.html), [Brush packs](https://sculptforge.app/guide/brush-packs.html)
- [Masking](https://sculptforge.app/guide/masking.html), [Face groups](https://sculptforge.app/guide/face-groups.html), [Layers](https://sculptforge.app/guide/layers.html)
- [Dynamic topology](https://sculptforge.app/guide/dynamic-topology.html), [Retopology](https://sculptforge.app/guide/retopology.html), [Subdivision levels](https://sculptforge.app/guide/subdivision-levels.html)
- [Generate 3D](https://sculptforge.app/guide/generate-3d.html), [Scan to sculptable](https://sculptforge.app/guide/scan-to-sculptable.html), [Splats](https://sculptforge.app/guide/splats.html)
- [PBR painting](https://sculptforge.app/guide/pbr-painting.html), [Baking](https://sculptforge.app/guide/baking.html), [Exporting](https://sculptforge.app/guide/exporting.html)
- [Scripting](https://sculptforge.app/guide/scripting.html), [Blender bridge](https://sculptforge.app/guide/blender.html), [Maya bridge](https://sculptforge.app/guide/maya.html)
- [Performance](https://sculptforge.app/guide/performance.html) and [Security](https://sculptforge.app/guide/security.html)

## Community and source

- [Discord](https://discord.gg/gWrYkEmQhH): help, feedback and bug reports
- [GitHub](https://github.com/islandmed/SculptForge): releases, issues, changelog and source
- [Feature queue](https://sculptforge.app/queue.html) and [Vote](https://sculptforge.app/vote.html): what is planned and what people asked for