Operating system: Windows Latest version Slicer version: 4.8.1 Expected behavior: The Slicer program should start running and open the visual file, however it doesn’t do so. Actual behavior: The Slicer program does not open the file when it is passed through an external Python Command I am writi…

Make sure to convert backslashes to forward slashes or add r prefix before the first quotation mark to indicate that it is a raw string. You can check if Slicer receives the correct filename by printing the string to Slicer’s Python console: print("Trying to open file [%s]" % openfile)

Could you please specify what you mean? I attempted specifying the file path with r however it doesn’t accept it. I do not get any sort of error. 3D slicer opens but simply doesn’t show the file. This is what I tried under your advice and it still did not work. self.openfile = C:/Users/Documents/…

Getting the proper quoting pass-through here was a bit tricky, and I used Process Explorer in order to see what was actually passed to Slicer. Here is the working version I ended up with: args = [r"C:\Program Files\Slicer 4.9.0-2018-09-10\Slicer.exe", '--python-code', r'slicer.util.loadVolume(r"%s"…

Thank you very much! Everything sorted! I would like to pass a command for 3D Slicer to open the Volume rendering automatically from the program python command line. Could you suggest a way of doing it? I thought the command loadVolume would directly load and open the volume rendering section of 3…

See [image] How to set volume rendering preset using Python Development Hi Oliver, There have been some improvements since 4.8.1 that makes it easier for us to do this. So if you use the latest nightly, then this is what you can do: Easier setup of volume rendering (no …

Not Opening a File - Called by an external python Command line

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Not Opening a File - Called by an external python Command line

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