Saving a document does not save your model. What it does is save a 2.5D snapshot of the canvas. It is no longer editable. To save a model so that it can be edited again in a future session, you need to use Tool>Save As.
There’s no way to turn a 2.5D document back into a 3D model. Everything that’s not visible to the camera quite literally no longer exists.
Haha, I was afraid of that.
Well I won’t be making that mistake twice LOL.
Thanks for the speedy answers Aurick and Coyotes :).
HI i just got zbrush 3 so i am not really familiar with some concepts for example i wanted to make a head, so i started by creating a zspheare then i entered to editing mode (t) once i´m there i want to move some areas of the spheare to give it a head shape so i press w but when i want to move it, it just gives the transpose lines, how can i just move the sphere without those lines?
I quite carefully saved my model, which I’m building with ZSpheres, as a Tool, not as a document. I can load it, and initially it seems I can edit it. But once I place a new zSphere, I no longer seem to have access to my model. I can’t edit, or draw new zSpheres on it. Instead, I seem only be able to create new instances of it.
Saving and reloading a model is very important to me because this program has already crashed twice in half an hour.
What am I doing wrong?
Well Grotius if you want to add new mesh, obj, tool to your existing one, you have to go to subtool and only there you will be able to do what you want. But only objects that you can add to you existing model are tool objects.
Grotius, make sure you’re in Transform: edit: draw mode when adding new zspheres to your root zsphere.
Otherwise, you’ll be adding brand new root zspheres to your canvas each time and you won’t be able to edit the old ones.
Thanks. I thought I was still in Edit mode, but perhaps not. I seem to have it working now.
I need help please
i am new in zbrush and 3d sclptin word
there is some thing that i am trying to do in zbrush and i cant
i want to know if it is posible to use the brush where are the 3d tools to modefy or scuplt a 3d objest or we can just use the normale brosh ( inflat magnify, flaten ext…)
thank you
sorry cuase my english es bad if the quetion is not clear enogth i will try to make with an other way
To sculpt 3D objects, use the brushes found in the Brush palette. Don’t use the stuff found in the Tool palette, since most of those are 2.5D (pixol-based).
Brush Palette? When in 3D edit mode all I can use to sculpt is a round tool, and adjust the size in the Draw menu, this method is quite general.
And if I use a simplebrush and go into the 2.5D view, I can’t go back and change the angle at which I’m view the object, even if I take a snap shot or save the object. Then it just lets me rotate the brush work I just did, as a separate object.
I’m using version 2.03 in Leopard.
I created a sculpture and didn’t compete it, but saved it as a .ZBR to edit it later. now when i load it i cannot do anything to it except paint i still needed to add more clay and sculpt it please help!!
Zbrush saves different elements in different places. If you save a document, it won’t save the tool (which is what you mean by your sculpture). To save that tool, goto the tool menu, and Save As…
i cannot see my “tool” or sculpture in the tool menu all i have is the basic tools.
sicrage, please actually read the thread. It clearly explains that Document>Save As will not work if you need to continue editing the model later. You need Tool>Save As.
I also recommend that you visit www.pixologic.com/zclassroom and www.pixologic.com/docs
I realize what is did wrong now thanks i just wish i knew that before i closed it oh well thanks for all your help
ohh darn it if only i would have read this before i saved my head 
well anyway that was my first work ever with zbrush… any critiques?
I was doing the vase tut and I made the vase in 3d. Then I saved the file. When I reopened it later, it would only let me work in 2.5d and wouldn’t let me switch to 3d. Please help.
Hi conn250,
Welcome to the forums.
If you read through the thread, you’ll see there is a difference in how to save with ZBrush. You probably saved the document, which won’t allow you to do 3D editing on your mesh anymore.
You need to save the tool (this is what ZBrush calls models). You can do that by going to the Tool menu and clicking Save As…