# Landmark loading

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/landmark-loading/8196
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 27, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/landmark-loading/8196 "2019-08-27T14:45:24Z")
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### Author: ![kab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/kab/32/4675_2.png) [@kab](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/kab)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/landmark-loading/8196/1 "2019-08-27T14:45:24Z")

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I have a set of 3D landmarks that are in the same image space as my image volume. How can I load/view both?

I found a documentation for creating landmarks from inside slicer, but not a mechanism for loading an externally created set.

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### 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: [August 27, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/landmark-loading/8196/2 "2019-08-27T17:31:46Z")

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You can load landmarks from a .csv file (that you can create/edit in Excel) and change the file extension to `.fcsv` to make Slicer recognize it as a markups fiducial file. Example file:

```nohighlight
# Markups fiducial file version = 4.10
# CoordinateSystem = 0
# columns = id,x,y,z,ow,ox,oy,oz,vis,sel,lock,label,desc,associatedNodeID
vtkMRMLMarkupsFiducialNode_0,-12.818,-5.885,-10.214,0.000,0.000,0.000,1.000,1,1,0,F-1,,vtkMRMLScalarVolumeNode1
vtkMRMLMarkupsFiducialNode_1,26.127,42.795,-10.214,0.000,0.000,0.000,1.000,1,1,0,F-2,,vtkMRMLScalarVolumeNode1

```