Open a new sculpt and this is what you're looking at:

The full Re:Form studio: menu bar on top, tool rail on the left, viewport with a red sphere in the middle, settings panel on the right, status bar along the bottom
The studio. Everything lives in one window: menu bar, tool rail, viewport, settings panel, status bar.

The viewport

The big space in the middle is where you sculpt. The counters in the top-left corner show the live vertex and triangle count of your mesh. The compass in the top-right corner is the navigation gizmo — it shows which way you're facing, names the current view (Front, Right…), and shows whether you're in Perspective or Ortho projection. In Perspective a floor plane sits under the model for orientation; the coloured lines through the origin are the world axis guide (X red, Y green, Z blue).

The left tool rail

Top to bottom:

  • Brush — the sculpting mode. Right-click the button (or click the big brush preview at the top of the right panel) to open the brush picker.
  • Paint — paint colour and material onto the surface instead of moving it. Right-click to pick a paint brush.
  • Move / Rotate / Scale — object transform tools. They show a gizmo for moving whole layers rather than sculpting the surface. See Grab & transforms.
  • Engine badge — GPU or CPU, showing which engine is running.

The menu bar

  • File — New (opens the Projects window), Save .clay, Save .clay as…, and the Import and Export submenus (OBJ, STL, GLB, FBX).
  • View — projection toggle, the six axis views, wireframe, smooth shading, FPS counter, and a few performance toggles.
  • Render — Render image… and Render turntable…, for presentation-quality output.
  • Help — these guides, the controls reference, the FAQ and About.
The File menu open: New, Save .clay, Save .clay as, Import and Export
File — projects, saving, import/export.
The View menu open: projection, axis views, wireframe and display toggles
View — projection, axis views, display toggles.
The Render menu open: Render image and Render turntable
Render — stills and turntable videos.

The right panel

Every setting lives here, in collapsible sections (click a title to fold it):

  • Brush — the active brush, stroke type, and the Size / Strength / Falloff / Spacing / Drag / Jitter sliders, plus the brush alpha slot. Mask tools appear here while the Mask brush is active.
  • Paint — colours, wet mix, roughness and metalness; visible while a paint brush is active.
  • Options — Symmetry X, Invert, and the Stabilize steadier for smooth lines.
  • Gizmo — Local/World handle axes, the origin lock, and Fit view.
  • Environment — Matcap / Unlit / Lit shading, the sculpt material, and (in Lit) the studio lighting rig.
  • Reference & Grid — reference images and the measurement grid; these two appear in Ortho projection.
  • Topology — Subdivide up and down, the current level, and Remesh.
  • Layers — the layer stack: add, duplicate, mirror, merge, split loose.

The brush picker

Right-click the Brush tool (or click the brush preview card) and the picker opens, organised into Build, Surface, Planes and Utility groups — with the Paint group appearing when the Paint tool is active. Hover any brush for a plain-language description of what it does.

The brush picker flyout showing the Build, Surface, Planes and Utility brush groups
The brush picker. Every brush, grouped by what it's for.

The status bar

The strip along the bottom shows the app version, what the active brush does, and the full mouse-and-keyboard cheat sheet: left-drag sculpts, Shift smooths, Ctrl inverts, right-drag orbits, middle-drag pans, the wheel zooms, Ctrl+Z undoes. The complete list lives in the controls reference.

Next: navigate the viewport.