Vision System Designer Software |
Download and Installation |
Welcome to the Vision System Designer (VSD) software, a system level 3D CAD tool for vision system applications.
The VSD software provides an interactive 3-dimensional environment that enables users to model and analyze a vision system in an application specific way. The software has built in functions for vision system performance analysis, sensor simulation and animation to evaluate and visualize before committing to hardware.
Software Features
| 3D
Environment |
interactive
3D visualization, 3D model placement in the
scene |
| Example
Projects |
Articulated
robot, basic camera lens system, thin lens
vs. asymetrical thick lens model, laser line
projection and many more |
| Catalog |
Lenses, cameras, lights, 3D models and primitives |
| Surface Reflectance Model |
Diffuse and specular reflections, radiometric layer
model, diffuse and specular surface textures, emittance, transparency |
| Lens Model |
Thin lens model, asymmetrical thick lens model, object
side telecentric, bilateral telecentric, MTF data, distortion and light fall off data,
aperture, focal length |
| Camera Model |
Radiometric signal model, noise model, quantum
efficiency, wavelength, detector location, size and resolution |
| Light Model |
Spot light, ring light, linear light, area light,
projector, laser line, directional light, diffuse on axis light, dome light, low angle
light (all lights are experimental at this time) |
| Vision System Performance Analysis |
Field of view, resolution, perspective distortion,
depth of field, depth of focus, contrast, impulse response, signal noise and ligthing
level, irradiance uniformity at WD, distortion and light fall off, edge
detection accuracy, dimensional measrement accuracy, aperture ray bundles |
| Animation/Simulation | translation
and rotation, image simulation |
| Measurement
Lines |
point to point measurements, axis alignt measurements |
| 3D Model
Import |
STEP, 3ds, Collada,
stl |
Download and Installation
The Vision System Designer (VSD) software is a Windows application. The public beta release for
commercial, educational and non-profit use is available for download. The VSD software depends on
several Microsoft packages that are not necessarily installed on every machine.
Requirements
| Software
Platform: |
Windows
XP, Vista and 7 |
| Graphic Card: |
Requires Shader Model 3.0, NVIDEA G-force
with 1GB RAM is recommended |
| Memory:
|
recommended is 1GB disk space and at least 2GB RAM |
| Dependencies:
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.Net 3.5, DirectX 9.0c, XNA 2.0 (these packages are required) The dependencies can be installed directly from Microsoft:
The Microsoft Windows .Net 3.5 Framework (~197 MB):
The Microsoft DirectX 9.0c installer (~98.1 MB):
The Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 2.0 (~2.10 MB): |
Software Download
| The Vision System Designer Software
1.0 Beta File: VSD1B.zip (This zip package uses web links for dependencies) |
Feb, 2012 | 75MB | Download |
| The Vision System Designer Software
1.0 Beta File: VSD1B_complete.zip This zip package includes all required dependencies (copies of .Net3.5, DirectX and XNA2.0). |
Feb, 2012 | 377MB | Available upon request |
| The Vision System Designer Software
1.0 C Beta File: VSD1CB.zip The Vision System Designer Software with the Catalog Builder |
Feb, 2012 | Available upon request |
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the software. We will keep your information
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available.
Installation
1) Unpack the installation package into a temporary directory. This directory can be deleted after the installation is completed.
2) Start the pre-installer “VSD_Installation.exe“.
Please install .Net 3.5, DirectX 9.0c, XNA 2.0 (these packages are required).
Screen Shots
Camera Stand
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Laser Line Projection
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Camera Model Page
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Lens Model Page
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Measurement Accuracy Page
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Light Irradiance Page
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