# ZBrushCore - ZBrush

> Part of the documentation index for ZBrush (https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/llms.txt). Section path: ZBrushCore. 59 page(s) in this section.

Overview page:

- [ZBrushCore](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/zbrushcore.html.md): ZBrushCore® is exactly what its name implies: The most essential elements of the award winning ZBrush software. It includes everything that you need to …

## Pages

- [ZBrushCoreMini](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/zbrushcoremini/zbrushcoremini.html.md): Welcome to ZBrushCoreMini® 2021, the mini and free version of ZBrushCore®.
  - [ZBrushCoreMini Interface](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/zbrushcoremini/zbrushcoremini-interface/zbrushcoremini-interface.html.md): In the list below, when an item has a Keyboard Shortcut it is given in brackets.
- [ZBrushCore 2021.6 Features](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/core-features/core-features.html.md): ZBrushCore 2021.6 builds on ZBrushCore 2021 to bring even more features from ZBrush to users of ZBrushCore.
  - [New in ZBrushCore 2021.6](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/core-features/new-in-core-2021-6/new-in-core-2021-6.html.md): Mesh Balloon is an amazingly fast brush for creating base meshes that you will then sculpt using the rest of the ZBrushCore feature set. Simply outline …
  - [New in ZBrushCore 2021](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/core-features/new-in-core-2021/new-in-core-2021.html.md): Display your model as a higher polygon version of itself, letting you see what it would look like when subdivided and smoothed without actually dividing …
- [MacOSX & Windows Versions (ZBrushCore)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/macosx-windows-versions/macosx-windows-versions.html.md): Instead of the Windows Ctrl key, the Macintosh uses the Cmd (Apple) Key. This documentation will always refer to using the Ctrl key name, although it may …
- [Set Your Language](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/set-your-language/set-your-language.html.md): ZBrushCore is available in several languages which you can change at any time in Preferences >> Languages.
- [Interface & Navigation](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/interface-navigation/interface-navigation.html.md): The ZBrushCore interface is designed so that everything you need is close at hand.
- [Import and Export](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/import-and-export/import-and-export.html.md): To open an iMage3D file, use the Open button in the File palette. To save an iMage3D file use the Save As button in the File palette.
- [Working with 3D Models](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/working-with-3d-models/working-with-3d-models.html.md): ZBrushCore provides two different ways to manipulate your 3D models on the canvas.
- [Masking & Selection](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/masking-selection/masking-selection.html.md): A mask is an area of your model that is ‘shielded’ from sculpting, painting, etc. Masked areas are not simply on/off. Instead, they can be unmasked …
- [Modeling Methods](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/modeling-methods/modeling-methods.html.md): Sculptris Pro is a dynamic tessellation sculpting workflow that enables you to ignore the constraints of polygon distribution and just — sculpt! Sculptris …
- [Finishing & Rendering](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/finishing-rendering/finishing-rendering.html.md): With the Surface Noise feature you can add an effect to your model to make it look like stone or wood or some other material. By adjusting the various …
- [3D Printing](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/3d-printing/3d-printing.html.md): ZBrushCore provides a simplified version of Decimation Master to optimize your model for 3D Printing. This is needed to reduce the number of polygons …
- [Reference Guide (ZBrushCore)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/reference-guide.html.md): This Reference Guide describes and explains the whole of the ZBrushCore interface. The guide is arranged by menu or palette. Some palettes have …
  - [Alpha (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/alpha/alpha.html.md): The ZBrushCore Alpha palette contains a variety of grayscale images known as Alphas. These images look like nautical depth soundings used to map the ocean …
  - [Brush (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/brush/brush.html.md): The Load Brush button will load a custom brush into the Brush palette
  - [Color (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/color/color.html.md): The Color palette displays the current color, and provides a number of ways to select it. You can also select a secondary color, which is used by some …
  - [Document (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/document/document.html.md): The Export button exports the current view of the model as an image file in a variety of formats. For best results, do a BPR render first, using the …
  - [Draw (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/draw/draw.html.md): Draw Size has a Dynamic mode which will automatically adjust the brush size depending on the scale of the model. Shift+click the word Dynamic on the right …
    - [Floor Grid (Draw)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/draw/floor-grid/floor-grid.html.md): The Open and Save buttons allow you to save your current reference images and grids setup for other projects. Opening a previous grid arrangement is often …
  - [Edit (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/edit/edit.html.md): In the Edit palette, you can undo and redo recent changes. You can also see how many undos are available.
  - [File (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/file/file.html.md): The File Open button will open an previously saved Project (ZPR format). Projects will save everything that is present on the document at the time of …
  - [Light (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/light/light.html.md): The Light palette provides up to 4 lights, as well as modifiers for customizing them. Select lights, and turn them on or off, by clicking on them. The …
  - [Material (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/material/material.html.md): The Load Material button replaces the selected material with a saved one.
  - [Movie (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/movie/movie.html.md): ZBrush Movies are recordings of ZBrush activity. For example, they are a good way to show how you sculpted a model, or display the finished result as a …
  - [Preferences (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/preferences.html.md): The Preferences palette contains settings for many ZBrushCore features so that you can set them to suit your working requirements. After changing settings …
    - [Config (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/config/config.html.md): If you have defined and SAVED a custom user interface, but then switched back to the standard interface with the Restore Standard UI button, the Restore …
    - [Quick Info (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/quick-info/quick-info.html.md): Press Quick Info to turn on large thumbnail viewers for buttons and items in the Alpha, Material, Texture and Tool palettes.
    - [Hotkeys (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/hotkeys/hotkeys.html.md): Store Startup Hotkeys. Use this button to save hotkeys that you want to be available when ZBrushCore starts.
    - [Interface (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/interface/interface.html.md): The Button Size slider affects the size of interface items. Setting the slider to a higher value will increase the size of buttons, switches and so on …
    - [Mem (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/mem/mem.html.md): The Maximum Polygons Per Mesh slider sets the limit for the number of polygons allowed per mesh or subtool. The value is in millions. The slider is …
    - [LightBox (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/lightbox/lightbox.html.md): This button will show or hide LightBox. The default hotkey is the comma key (,) but you can change it if you want by Ctrl+Alt+clicking this button and …
    - [Magnify Glass (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/magnify-glass/magnify-glass.html.md): When the Magnify Glass is enabled ZBrushCore will display a small magnifier to magnify UI and Document. You can adjust the magnifier to you requirements …
    - [Performance (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/performance/performance.html.md)
    - [Transpose Units (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/transpose-units/transpose-units.html.md)
    - [Gizmo 3D (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/gizmo-3d/gizmo-3d.html.md): Show info hints while moving the cursor over the Gizmo. Turn off if you don’t want these to display.
    - [Geometry (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/geometry/geometry.html.md): The DynaMesh Close Holes slider sets whether a DynaMesh operation will close any holes and if so, what size the triangles will be.
    - [Misc (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/misc/misc.html.md): Automatically select the last used file type when exporting.
    - [QuickSave (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/quicksave/quicksave.html.md): The Maximum Duration slider sets the maximum number of minutes that can elapse between Auto Saves. If you do not save the project yourself within this …
    - [Utilities (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/utilities/utilities.html.md): If a tablet is being used this slider will show the current pressure.
    - [Language (Preferences)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/preferences/language/language.html.md): You can change the displayed Language any time by pressing the buttonfor the language you want. Be sure to save the change by storing the configuration …
  - [Render (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/render/render.html.md): The Best Preview Render button will create a high-quality render of your model. If the floor is showing and the Shadows option turned on then shadows will …
  - [Stroke (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/stroke/stroke.html.md): The Stroke palette provides a variety of stroke types which determine how each brush is applied when the cursor is dragged on the model. By default, most …
  - [Texture (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/texture/texture.html.md): The Texture palette contains a variety of images and patterns. You can use Textures while painting. You can add Textures to this palette by importing …
  - [Tool (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/tool.html.md): The Tool palette holds all the 3D Models for a ZBrushCore project. They are known as “Tools” or “ZTools”. (In ZBrush there are different types of Tool …
    - [Subtool (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/subtool/subtool.html.md): SubTools are separate polygon objects. Each SubTool can be equal to the maximum number of polygons your system can handle. If your system handles 8 …
    - [Geometry (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/geometry/geometry.html.md): The Lower Subdivision Resolution button selects the next-lower-resolution mesh from this object’s alternative mesh resolutions. Higher-resolution meshes …
    - [Preview (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/preview/preview.html.md): The Object Preview window displays the current 3D model. Also displayed is the clipping plane, showing how the object relates to an imaginary plane at the …
    - [Surface (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/surface/surface.html.md): The Surface menu contains controls to apply noise to the mesh. Noise is a render effect – it does not affect the geometry of the mesh and so is not …
    - [Deformation (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/deformation/deformation.html.md): The Unify button changes the dimensions of the current 3D tool. The object’s height, width, and/or depth are changed to a unit size which fits neatly …
    - [Masking (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/masking/masking.html.md): The Tool > Masking sub-palette provides options for masking a 3D object. Masking modifies all sculpting or painting actions, whether applied directly or …
    - [Polygroups (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/polygroups/polygroups.html.md): Auto Groups will create a new group for each separate poly object. Keep in mind that a separate poly object is not a SubTool but a part of the object that …
    - [Display Properties (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/display-properties/display-properties.html.md): When 3D objects are drawn on the canvas and rendered, by default only polygons which face you are drawn. Pressing the Double button causes all polygons …
    - [Export (Tool)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/tool/export/export.html.md): The Scale slider determines the size of the exported object. 1 equals 100% size.
  - [Transform (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/transform/transform.html.md): The Draw button is for sculpting and polypainting the model. The Draw, Move, Scale and Rotate buttons are only pressed one at a time.
  - [Zplugin (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/zplugin/zplugin.html.md): Reduces the current Draw Size by the amount in the Brush Increment slider. The default hotkey is [.
  - [Help (Reference Guide)](https://help.maxon.net/zbr/en-us/Content/html/zbrushcore/reference-guide/help/help.html.md): The Help palette has easy access to various ZBrush resources.
