# Free hand drawing is not working effectively in slicer

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/free-hand-drawing-is-not-working-effectively-in-slicer/5354>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 13, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/free-hand-drawing-is-not-working-effectively-in-slicer/5354 "2019-01-13T14:14:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/free-hand-drawing-is-not-working-effectively-in-slicer/5354/3 "2019-01-13T14:40:04Z")

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Hi Tarun,

This post appears to be the same as what you posted [here](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-is-automatically-cutting-the-annotations-on-the-ct-slices-and-not-letting-me-draw-the-desired-region-of-interest/5347) several hours ago. I wanted to let you know your post wasn’t being ignored, but most Slicer developers are located in North American time zones and so there are fewer responses at night and on the weekends.

I did a search on the forum to find a post similar to yours. Please review it below. It appears you might have a volume with a tilted gantry. Let us know if this doesn’t work and if you don’t find another solution on another forum post. We are here to help!

> [@Segmentation Editor - How to disable painting on adjacent slices?](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segmentation-editor-how-to-disable-painting-on-adjacent-slices/1459/4):
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> If the acquisition was tilted you may need to rotate to volume plane (click the “pushpin” icon in the top-left corner of the slice view, then click the double-arrow button on the left, then the “Rotate to volume plane” icon appears): [image] Here’s an example drawing on the original slice (patient space) And here the paint stroke on the right is after rotating the red slice into the acquisition plane and only one plane is painted in the other views.

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