BoneBox™ - Skull Viewer for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Nina21194

  I Love this BUUUTTTTT...

  I really love this app. its great for me to study for my Osteology Class, but i wish i could save my pins on it. Also, I kept getting green dots everywhere on the skull, mostly on the sutures. I just deleted it and ill see if it does it again but its an overall great app! EDIT: The green dots didn'y go away -.-

  
  
• By dodikins

  Like it

  I'm not a doctor, nurse, or whatever else, so I can't attest to the accuracy of this app. However, I have been looking at it along with some legitimate medical books, like "Essential Clinical Anatomy," and it seems to be holding up. Pros: + Zooming and rotating are a lot easier than 3D4Medical's "Skeleton System Pro III." The latter is such a pain sometimes, spinning endlessly if not done right, that I appreciate this one's implementation of those features. + Pins stay in place when you rotate the skull. This is a big one for me, as "Skeleton System Pro III" also lacks this. It makes it much easier to view the same structure from multiple angles. + Different colored pins for bones vs. landmarks. It makes it easier to figure out what they're trying to ask. + Colorized views make it easier to see where one bone ends and another begins. + Cross-sectional views are helpful. Cons: - You can't pan, so if you've zoomed in too far, part of the skull might be cut off. You either have to rotate the skull until you can see it, or zoom back out again. - When you click pins, it automatically draws in lines for sutures, etc., for you. While this makes it easier to know what it's asking, at the end of the day, nobody is going to draw out structures on your skull and ask you to name them. - Clicking the pins is not always very accurate. Sometimes, the label for an adjacent structure will pop up instead, which is both distracting and counterproductive to trying to study, if it reveals a pin I haven't gotten around to yet. - Pins that you add yourself are not saved if you quit the app. - Neither are drawings done with the pen. All in all, this is a pretty nifty app, although limited in utility: It is simplified, it only shows the skull, and it only gives the names of things, without additional information as to why you should care about them (what structures run through them, or attach to them, etc.). I think it's good for a first run-through, to get a sense of what's what when you first start studying. If you want or need more detail, 3D4Medical's suite of apps or something similar is the way to go.

  
  

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