Questions (and answers)

Yes, you can download one from the documentation page. If you are new to 3Depict, but not atom probe, you might want to read the "quick start" section in the manual.

We get this one more than we expected. It's pronounced separately as two words, "three", then the word "depict" (to draw or display), strung together. The name originated from "3D PoInt Cloud Tool". If you have a US accent, it sounds like this.

We get this one more than we thought too. Just make sure the URL and the version number of the program you were using is included. Here is a bibtex entry you can modify :
@Misc{, Title = {3Depict - Visualisation & Analysis for Atom Probe}, Note = {[Online; Accessed : D-Month-YEAR ]}, Comment = {Please use \usepackageurl with latex, to display URL in citation}, Url = {http://threedepict.sourceforge.net} }

Try asking for support; it might be fixable.
Report a bug (complain). These will be prioritised to be fixed, if I can reproduce them (get the same problem as you by trying to follow your report). Remember that to solve the problem, I need to make the same problem happen on my computer, and if I can't then I might not be able to fix it.

Not really. Small donations are not particularly useful, and small donations are not going to make me work on this any more than I currently do. However, there are several things you can do.

Use it -- Knowing that people are using the program is good motivation to keep working on it.

Email the author to say how this has helped you. If you are from an academic background, doing this in a formal manner is helpful too.

Work on something that the program needs, such as documentation, artwork, language translation, web design or programming.
If you need a particular feature, you could fund a project to develop it, either independantly, or by contacting the author. This could be quite expensive though, and would require some level of computational skill and more importantly, familiarity with the code.

You can request a feature through the forum or contact form. I do not promise to get these things done, but you might find that it is quite easy to create a change. Worst case scenario is that you lose a few minutes asking.

I might be able to propose a work around, or suggest alternate, or combinations of tools that can help.
If there are modules that might benefit the community, or you are using this for a specific academic need, it might be possible to construct a problem-specific solution

I needed it to fill some needs that I could not find existing software to suit. I couldn't find a flexible point cloud + value analysis program that fitted my needs, so I built one. Seeing as I needed to do it quickly, free components were the order of the day.

I'm keen on doing programming and all that sort of stuff. How can I get started?

Firstly, make sure you are familiar with C++ and compiling projects with multiple source files. Then, the best thing to do is to compile the latest source code (.tar.gz file). Also, you can check out the generated code documentation,which has some nice graphical representations of the program structure.
If you want to build your own filter, we have a template filter patch (apply from the top folder, with patch -p1 < template-filter.patch), which can get you started. make sure you can compile the code by itself first, though!

Well, try to contact the authors. These questions were written in a speculative fashion, and are not technically "frequently asked". There are some older questions written up here, for which the answers are now a bit obsolete.

3Depict - Visualisation & Analysis for Atom Probe