# How can I configure Slicer to open automatically with my preferred settings for the View Controllers module?

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**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** views\
**Created:** [October 19, 2021, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-can-i-configure-slicer-to-open-automatically-with-my-preferred-settings-for-the-view-controllers-module/20233 "2021-10-19T11:49:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-can-i-configure-slicer-to-open-automatically-with-my-preferred-settings-for-the-view-controllers-module/20233/6 "2021-10-20T07:34:33Z")

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Hello, Andras.  
From your cited discussion I found:

> [@Volume display - Interpolate turned off by default in newest stable?](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/volume-display-interpolate-turned-off-by-default-in-newest-stable/13918/10):
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> I agree that it can be useful to show the voxel grid during segmentation so that you know how fine details you can paint and where. Note that this is the grid of the binary labelmap representation of the segmentation and not the grid of the background scalar volume.

So this is interesting for two reasons.  
Firstly, I am mainly interested in this for segmentation.  
Secondly, I am not sure of what is being used to define the grid of a segment if not the grid of a scalar volume.

On the latter point, so far I had found the segments (e.g. from the **Threshold** effect) rather jagged for small features, so recently I have been creating new _scaled_ cropped volumes from these small objects (through the **Crop Volume** module, with **Spacing scale** set to, say, 0.50x or 0.20x and with the **Interpolator** set to “B-spline”).  
So I suspect — correct me if I’m wrong — that this would avoid some of the staircase issues you’re talking about, because interpolation is still performed somewhere along the way.  
On the other hand, perhaps I’m overlooking a clever feature in Slicer whereby I can use a refined grid for the segment, different from any extant volume??

—DIV

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