# Control Slicer using Surface Dial controller **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [May 23, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/control-slicer-using-surface-dial-controller/362 "2017-05-23T13:35:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/control-slicer-using-surface-dial-controller/362/1 "2017-05-23T13:35:20Z")

In case you were wondering if you can use [Surface Dial](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/Surface-Dial/925R551SKTGN) to control Slicer - yes, you can. See 1-minute demo here: No change in 3D Slicer is necessary. Scrolling through slices, zooming in/out, traversing through the undo/redo stack of Segment Editor work out-of-the-box. You can configure additional tools by specifying application-specific keyboard shortcuts. Feel free to post here if you have questions, suggestions, or has any experience to share. ---

How to configure additional tools: click Windows icon, enter “Wheel Settings”, click “Add an app” in in App Tools section, select “SlicerApp-real.exe”, and click “Add a tool”. Examples for adding tools for Segment Editor (see [complete list of Segment Editor keyboard shortcuts](http://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/module_segmenteditor.html)): Segment select: - Custom tool name: Segment Select - Rotate right: None + W - Rotate left: None + Q - Click shortcut: None + Space (space switches between the last two effects in the latest nightly version, it’s useful to toggle between paint/erase; scissors/none; …) Brush size: - Custom tool name: Brush Size - Rotate right: Ctrl + + - Rotate left: Ctrl + - - Click shortcut: None + Space