Start with a solid form

Switch to 3D and open Add Objects. Choose the Draw Shapes tab and find Solid forms. These starters require access to 3D Reshape. A lock badge indicates unavailable access; choosing a locked starter opens the upgrade prompt instead of creating geometry. Use an unlocked, visible current layer: a locked or hidden layer blocks creation and shows a warning.

Choose Box, Cylinder, Sphere, Cone or Solid ring. Clicking a tile creates the object immediately at the last canvas pointer position, using ground level as its elevation reference. To choose the location directly, drag the tile onto the canvas and drop it. A primitive dropped onto a surface uses that landing elevation; otherwise the drop uses the ground. Inspect the result from another angle before editing.

Choose New surface object when you want a flat starting face rather than a ready-made volume. It creates a small square face with no height yet. Clicking uses the last canvas pointer position; dragging uses the drop’s horizontal position. This is an actual starting face that you can edit, rather than an object with no geometry.

Creation opens Reshape for that object. Select the face, edge or point you need and use the offered tools, such as Push/Pull, to develop the form. Follow the active Tool Guide for the operation and its completion action. See the Reshape article for supported edits and precise input.

Press Esc to clear the current operation or selection and, as needed, leave Reshape. Ordinary single-object Reshape does not show a separate Done bar; nested editing contexts can show Done. If you leave a freshly created New surface object without committing an edit, the unused starting face is removed. A starting face that has received a committed edit is kept. Creation and committed edits can be reversed with Undo.