# Send transform from 3D slicer to MAtlab

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/send-transform-from-3d-slicer-to-matlab/18560>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 7, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/send-transform-from-3d-slicer-to-matlab/18560 "2021-07-07T11:27:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Matteo\_Boles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/matteo_boles/32/10913_2.png) [@Matteo\_Boles](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Matteo_Boles)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/send-transform-from-3d-slicer-to-matlab/18560/1 "2021-07-07T11:27:58Z")

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Hello,  
I am trying to send a transform from 3D slicer to matlab and I followed the steps in the examples at this link: [PlusToolkit/PlusMatlabUtils: Matlab utilities for reading/writing Plus data structures and communicating with Plus applications (github.com)](https://github.com/PlusToolkit/PlusMatlabUtils), but nothing works and in matlab I keep reading “no transforms are available”

How do I solve this problem?

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**Author:** ![Matteo\_Boles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/matteo_boles/32/10913_2.png) [@Matteo\_Boles](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Matteo_Boles)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/send-transform-from-3d-slicer-to-matlab/18560/2 "2021-07-07T12:36:25Z")

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Anyone can please help me, I do not really know what to do

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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:** [July 9, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/send-transform-from-3d-slicer-to-matlab/18560/3 "2021-07-09T05:46:59Z")

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We moved from Matlab to Python. See more information in this [notice](https://github.com/PlusToolkit/PlusMatlabUtils#notice).

I think you can use Python in Matlab. If this is the case then you can use the [pyigtl](https://github.com/lassoan/pyigtl) Python package for receiving transforms that 3D Slicer sends.