GenICam Quick Facts

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Mech-Eye Industrial 3D Camera (“camera”) supports the GenICam standard, which allows GenICam-compliant third-party machine vision software (“GenICam clients”) to control them.

After upgrading the camera firmware to 2.0.0 or above, you can directly control the camera with GenICam clients, such as HALCON (MVTec) and VisionPro (Cognex), without any extra procedures.

Basic knowledge on GenICam:

GenICam Basics

Instructions on using HALCON to control the camera:

HALCON: Connect to Camera, Perform Image Capturing, and Adjust Parameters
HALCON: Hand-Eye Calibration
HALCON: Obtain Textured Point Cloud
HALCON: Obtain Depth Values Only
HALCON: Set IP Address
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Useful reference information for using GenICam:

Camera Parameters Supported for GenICam
Use Mech-Eye Viewer to Adjust Camera Parameters for GenICam Client
Obtain HALCON-Readable Point Cloud through Mech-Eye API

GenICam Quick Facts

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