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Revision as of 17:54, 15 May 2017
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Introduction
This page is intended to provide links to places where Slicer Users can get help.
Discourse Forum
The most effective way to get help from the community is through the 3D Slicer community page on Discourse. Categories:
- Support: usage related questions
- Development: programming related questions
Mailing List (deprecated)
This used to be the common way to get help from the community before migrating to Discourse. Questions about using 3D Slicer should be posted to the slicer-users mailing list.
- In order to ask a question, send an email to slicer-users at bwh. harvard.edu.
- In order to join the mailing list, go to http://massmail.spl.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/slicer-users and sign up.
- Archives of past postings are available here.
For programming related questions, the slicer-devel mailing list needs to be used.
- In order to ask a question, send an email to slicer-users at bwh. harvard.edu.
- In order to join the mailing list, go to http://massmail.spl.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/slicer-devel and sign up.
- Archives of past postings are available here.
Bug Reports and Feature Requests
We have a data base of bug reports and feature request which is based on a software package called "Mantis". Please file your reports in mantis and send an email about the report to the slicer-users mailing list.
- In order to file a feature request or a bug report, please sign up on http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/signup_page.php, then click on the Report Issue link in your browser.
- See here for additional tips on reporting issues.
Downloading Slicer
- Slicer is free open source software and is distributed under a BSD license. Please read the Slicer License Agreement, if you use Slicer.
- Compiled binaries are accessible through the Slicer Download page.
Training and Documentation
- The Training page provides a series of courses for learning how to use Slicer4. The portfolio contains self-guided presentation and sample data sets.
- Reference manual style documentation for Slicer4 can be found on the Slicer Wiki.
Frequently Asked Questions FAQs
We maintain a curated list of questions and answers for both users and developers:
