Holes in Sculpties

Is it possible to cut holes in sculpties? And if so, how's that done?

What kind of holes? Which program?

The easiest hole is just to start with a torus.

Yes and no. All sculpties are planes, and you cannot cut a hole in that plane, you can however wrap the plane into a tube, then wrap that tube into a torus, hence, you have a sculptie with a hole. Your best bet would be to take a sculpted torus and move around the vertices so that it looks like you want, and there's your hole.

It is not possible to cut holes in the mesh as Johan stated already and the only way to create a true hole is to use the torus type sculptie. But...

It is possible to "bend" the mesh such that you can subdivide the mesh into a set of unconnected sub objects. And with such unconnected objects it is possible to "construct" objects which seem to have more than one hole on their surface. The general technique is often described using the name "multiple sculptie" or "multi sculptie". I can offer a tutorial, which explains the general principle. The object i construct has got 2 holes:

http://blog.machinimatrix.org/2009/08/14/2-in-1-multiple-objects-with-one-single-sculpty/

It uses blender as tool, but the very same approach can be used in any other tool that is capable to make sculpted prims. Here is one other approach for Wings-3D

As usual, great tutorial Gaia

Edit:

I went ahead and followed Gaia's tutorial and it came out great. Only thing is, I didn't think it was allowable to delete vertices. Apparently it is though as it worked fine just as in the tutorial.

Thanks to all - especially to Gaia... what would I do without your tutorials