It was quite fast (no more than an hour) for me.

Bob Janisch Hi Bob, I might not recall how I installed it, but it was an extension that I had to load into the program. I believe there’s an extension manager/preferences sort of dialog for you to find the file, and it should work once you’ve selected it. At least - that’s from what I can remember when I did this last year. Sorry if this information isn’t the most helpful!

Hi! It took me about 3 weeks to get a good understanding of how the program worked, and what the functions were doing. I use a MBP laptop so it would definitely be faster if you used such a program on a Windows or desktop computer (I compared my experience with my classmates’ and their 3D renderings were processed at a faster rate than mine. I did try Invesalius but they only have a 16bit version for Mac, and that ran really slowly on my laptop. It was easier to use and understand in terms of functionality and tools when compared to 3D Slicer though. AHNTLIA is correct in stating that Invesalius and 3D Slicer are basic and limited tools - as a beginner, I was already struggling with a lot, so this was enough to keep me occupied for a 5-6week period. If you have more time, or a faster ability to adapt to working with such data and tools, then I would agree with AHNTLIA and invest in more expensive software with a larger variety of tools and precision. It really depends on the scope of your project, and what you’re intending to achieve.

Michael Ee Thank you. Appreciate your reply. I most likely will invest in a sophisticated tool since I am thinking of going deep in medical imaging. But I am planning to do that after I learn basics from3D slicer and inVesalius. What were the resource that you used for learning 3D slicer, was it just the tutorials on the wiki page?

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Draacid Pay for the knowledge, it's just anoying to have the world fed up of people whot think they can do it all by themselves and trying to make it all free... Buy Geomagic, buy Magics from MAterialise. There you have something constructive.

AHNTLIA Since you know quiet a bit about this, do you have any information as to how much Materialise MIMICS cost? Thank you.

World_Watcher maybe you want to go for mimics se. 136 USD per student. The real thing must cost around 20000 USD just like magics and similar solutions.

AHNTLIA Thank you for your reply. $20K is indeed a lot of money. But in order to get student edition, I think I must be enrolled in school, which I am not currently. Also MIMICS has two different versions one for clinical use and one nor non clinical uses. I was wanting to have the one for clinical use. However in comparison Invesalious by CTI is free and is intended for clinical use. Let us see I am planning to install all 3 (MIMICS, Invesalious and 3D slicer) and compare them all. I request you to let me know if you have already compared them.

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