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Hardcuts is a dedicated hard-surface sculpting application focused on voxel workflows and Boolean-driven form building. Rather than leaning on a traditional polygon-modeling approach, it centers on cutters, primitives, deformers, repeated elements, and direct shape editing. For artists building mechanical forms, props, panels, casings, and other manufactured-looking objects, that may be a very good kind of rabbit hole.
Hardcuts is a fresh arrival in hard-surface sculpting, and the pitch is pleasantly blunt. It is a standalone tool built around voxel-based booleans, quick blockouts, cutters, arrays, and deformers, with as little interface noise as possible between the artist and the shape. In other words, less topology babysitting, more cutting holes into things.
According to the official feature page, Hardcuts includes five Boolean modes directly in the viewport, plus parametric primitives, 2D cutters, profile sweep, lathe, smart placement, region extrude, arrays, symmetry, bend, lattice, and OBJ/STL import with controllable voxelization. That gives it a clear identity: this is not trying to be everything, it is trying to be fast at one specific kind of work.
The company, which is based in Fellbach, Germany, describes Hardcuts as a voxel-based hard-surface sculpting application built in C++ for performance. It also says the goal is to build the fastest hard-surface sculpting tool in the world. That is the developer’s claim, not an independently verified benchmark, but the focus is at least unmistakable.
If you have a little breathing room over Easter, Hardcuts looks like a genuinely interesting one to test. Not because every new modeling tool changes the game, since most do not, but because this one seems to know exactly what it wants to be.
Access
Access is available now through the new Alpha release, for Windows and Linux 8 *.deb Package. The build can be downloaded and tried for free, while a $49 one-time purchase unlocks Load, Save, Import, and Export and includes updates through version 1.x. For anyone tired of discovering that their screwdriver now has a subscription model, that part lands rather well.
Hardcuts:
https://hardcuts.io/
Register / Alpha Access:
https://hardcuts.io/register
