# newbie needs advice on finding measurments and rulers in 4.6.2

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/newbie-needs-advice-on-finding-measurments-and-rulers-in-4-6-2/1647>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/newbie-needs-advice-on-finding-measurments-and-rulers-in-4-6-2/1647 "2017-12-12T13:53:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![lambrosone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@lambrosone](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lambrosone)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/newbie-needs-advice-on-finding-measurments-and-rulers-in-4-6-2/1647/1 "2017-12-12T13:53:51Z")

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Operating system: win 10 Slicer version:4.6.2  
Expected behavior:  
Actual behavior: need to find measurements and rulers

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**Author:** ![cpinter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/cpinter/32/7995_2.png) [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/newbie-needs-advice-on-finding-measurments-and-rulers-in-4-6-2/1647/2 "2017-12-12T14:42:00Z")

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The Annotations module contains rulers in Slicer4, and you can place them easily from the toolbar, see all information here  
[https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Modules/Annotations](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Modules/Annotations)

A few more things:

- Please use 4.8 or newer, as 4.6.2 is more than a year old now, and the codebase has been considerably improved since then
- There is work towards developing a new measurements module, so please consider this especially if you want to incorporate Annotations into any new module or script

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**Author:** ![lambrosone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@lambrosone](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lambrosone)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/newbie-needs-advice-on-finding-measurments-and-rulers-in-4-6-2/1647/3 "2017-12-13T16:43:58Z")

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thank you very much. Are there people who teach slicer? Or another comprehensive resource?

V

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**Author:** ![cpinter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/cpinter/32/7995_2.png) [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/newbie-needs-advice-on-finding-measurments-and-rulers-in-4-6-2/1647/4 "2017-12-13T16:59:16Z")

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The user documentation is pretty comprehensive  
[https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly)  
There are many tutorials with videos and stepby-step slides  
[https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Training](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Training)  
The next project week where everybody who works or wants to work with Slicer is welcome will be in January

> **[ProjectWeek](https://na-mic.github.io/ProjectWeek/PW27_2018_Boston/)**
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> Website for NA-MIC Project Weeks

Also you’re welcome to ask questions here.

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**Author:** ![lambrosone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@lambrosone](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lambrosone)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/newbie-needs-advice-on-finding-measurments-and-rulers-in-4-6-2/1647/5 "2017-12-13T17:40:35Z")

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thanks. Will check it out.

V