I figured it out on my own eventually. Stephanie
---------- >From: "Stephanie McMains" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: making full surface cuts >Date: Thu, May 9, 2002, 3:24 PM > > I am trying to make full surface cuts using csurf. I have successfully make > occipital patches, but the directions for the full surface cuts seem to be > incorrect in the manual. > > I went to subject tools -> make full surface cuts > ->this brings up the inflated surface, medial view > > -> went to View -> overlay > -> to see gray/dark gray instead of green/red > > -> made individual cuts by left clicking points and then hitting -> cutline > > successfully made all of the cuts except the one surrounding midline area. > so far just following instructions. > > Now ready to make midline cut/area > > Manual says: > > 1. click points (I did) > 2. use cutarea button to make closed line > -> when I do this, the whole brain turns white like it is selected and > the midline line doesn't show up. No longer looks like pictures in manual. > -> can't get past this step using manual > 3. mark area want by left clicking in it > 4. press fill button, end up with everything but central midline area being > white, theoretically. > > So this is what i tried instead: > > 1. clicked points around midline region > 2. used cut closed line -> actually get line surrounding midline area, looks > like the picture in the manual after manual step 2. > 3. marked area want by left clicking in it > 4. Tried to press fill button, but there is not one, there is only a fill > curvature, which fills in only specific sulci/gyri, and a fill stats. > -> but if I click in midline region, and click CutArea, the whole brain > turns white (which means I am selecting/filling something, just more than I > want). Same is true if I click in outer cortex and then click CutArea. > > Maybe I have an old version of tksurfer? We are running tksurfer from > Boston University, I know we don't have the absolute latest version of > everything. I typed in tksurfer to look for a version number, the only > thing I saw that looked close was vers:24m23s23j Open GL > > Maybe there is just one small final step I am missing, some way to select > just the area I want? > > Thanks for your help, > Stephanie McMains
