Chapter 2 System Components If you only want to use the middle 100 lines you would change this as follows: Camera Name Microscan VISIONSCAPE CMG03 656x 100 Digitizer Type 1073741824 // GigeVision Camera Help File Stride 656 Rows 100 X Offset 0 Y Offset 197 Bits Per Pixel 8 Pixel Type 0 Image Structure 1 Vertical Binning 1 Horizontal Binning 1 Async Control 1 // 1=async, 0=continuous (formerly "shutter type") Usecs Per Frame 33333 Usecs Per Line x 10 674 Sensors 1 Strobes 1 GPIO Edit Mask 0x0 GPIO Defaults 0x0 GPIO Count 0 GPIO Inputs 0 GPIO Outputs 0 Setting the Y Offset to 197 because 494-100 = 394. 394/2 = 197. 197 lines to ignore, take 100 lines and ignore the rest.
Save this file, making sure that you do not save it as a text file (Save as Type… All Files). Load FrontRunner and you should now be able to select this new camdef for your camera. How to Set Up a Multiple-Camera System the Easy Way Imagine that a customer wants to use four CMG20 cameras in a single inspection. The cameras will be connected to a single NIC through a GigE switch. If they just plug in all four cameras and turn them on, two things will happen: • The order of the four cameras may not be what the customer wants; • They won’t work taking simultaneous images because the overall bandwidth of these four cameras is too high (the CMG20 can do 16 fps.
At 2MB per image, this is 32MB per second per camera. 4 2-50 Visionscape GigE Camera Guide