Oh, I'm sure they can fix it if you throw enough money at them. :P

Blender is free, yo.

Bribe 'em to fix it? ;)

I can't say that I have the same problem. I've been doing some modelling on my own and needed to do some sculpting, and it worked fine for me at least.

Have you tried reinstalling it?

I just cleaned out Blender from my system, including the old installs, and removed the Blender foundation folder, and performed a clean install of 3.3 I am getting the same problem in that the sculpt brushes are just not doing anything to the surface of a subdivided cube.

I hope you applied the subdivide modifyer...

That was it! Thank you.

are you using multires? subdivide doesnt work with sculpting it seems like

Apparently so. Not sure about the Multi-Rez modifier, so I just applied the Sub-D modifier, and it now works fine.

glad to hear ^^ you can use multiresolution in the future, its a couple of slots above subdivision in the modifier list. practically does the same thing so can be confusing

but its good to use because if you're sculpting with a lot of polys without it, blender will lag a ton

I'm thinking it bugged when you upgrading and you should do a fresh install. Look on their site how to do that, so you also remove any hidden folders, to make sure everything is new, and also how to save your custom brushes and stuff if you created some.

I haven't proceeded far enough to make any custom brushes, or brush settings, BUT I just cleaned out Blender from my system, including the old installs, and removed the Blender foundation folder, and performed a clean install of 3.3 I am getting the same problem in that the sculpt brushes are just not doing anything to the surface of a subdivided cube.

It's weird the rest of the program seems fine. Its like that added somehting between 3.2 and 3.3 other than the hair system and the new Geo Nodes, that blocks sculpting of surfaces?

Probably something small and stupid that got checked but isn't obvious, one of the things i hate about blender.

yeah. I was making so much progress in sculpting, but.... stalled due to this. The Brush doesn't seem to recognize any surfaces, and just glides past the subdivided cube as if it wasn't there.

just to start and check the stupid simple stuff first 100% sure you had the cube selected when you started sculpt mode?

Nah, the solution was I had to apply the subdivision modifier and then remesh every so often like I normally do, It's all good now, But these human anatomy tutorials are pretty hard.

oh yeah can't have modifiers on

Literally the biggest issue with the software. Its absolutely unforgiving and the UI is incredibly fragmented.

Oh I know, I am coming from a studio that used Maya. However, after Blender 2.8 the interface was reworked to great consternation of the user base, and I expect another interface revision after NODES are added to all the other aspects of Blender, (and it becomes essentially a free Houdini).