# Segmentation Editor - How to disable painting on adjacent slices?

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segmentation-editor-how-to-disable-painting-on-adjacent-slices/1459>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** segmentation, faq\
**Created:** [November 14, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segmentation-editor-how-to-disable-painting-on-adjacent-slices/1459 "2017-11-14T22:00:02Z")\
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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:** [December 9, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/segmentation-editor-how-to-disable-painting-on-adjacent-slices/1459/6 "2018-12-09T23:57:13Z")

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Recent versions of Slicer now show a warning button (with an exclamation mark) if any of the slice viewers are not aligned with the current segmentation axes. Click that button to snap each slice view to nearest segmentation axis.

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