2 Take Your First Picture Setting Up the GigE Camera Picture Taking Notifications If camera hardware trigger is being used, PicExpose and PicDone are unreliable. Equivalent logic can be implemented in the job using Digital Output Steps. Change the Selected Camera In the previous steps we showed how to acquire single images or live video from your first GigE camera. If you are using more than one camera, and want to check images from additional cameras, you have two options: 1. Add additional Snapshot Steps to your Job, and configure each to connect to your other cameras. 2. Simply reconfigure the current Snapshot step to use a different camera.
Option # 1 goes beyond the scope of a “Getting Started” manual, please refer to the Visionscape Tools Reference Manual for more information on building Step programs. We will explain option 2 here. Select the snapshot step in the “Job List” window on the left side of the main window: FIGURE 2–15. Change Selected Camera Getting Started with Visionscape GigE Cameras 2-15