GenICam Quick Facts

Mech-Eye Industrial 3D Cameras (hereinafter referred to as cameras) support the GenICam standard, which allows GenICam-compliant third-party machine vision software (hereinafter referred to as GenICam clients) to control them.

After upgrading the 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.

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Basic knowledge on GenICam:

GenICam Basics

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Instructions on using HALCON to control the camera:

• HALCON: Connect to Camera, Perform Image Capturing, and Adjust Parameters

• HALCON: Hand-Eye Calibration

• HALCON: Set IP Address

• HALCON: Obtain Depth Values Only

• HALCON: Obtain Textured Point Cloud

• Obtain HALCON-Readable Point Cloud through Mech-Eye API

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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