EyeVision software provides the integrated “brain” of the 3D sensor. EyeVision allows the sensor not only to capture an image but also to use the complete 3D command set of the software to measure, compare and read the 3D point cloud or 2D gray-scale image.

The Gocator is a compact sensor in an industrial housing with a protection class of up to IP67. It has two digital outputs, RS485 Serial and one analogue output (4 – 20 mA). More than one of the Gocator sensor families can be used with effortless configuration and synchronization.
With the EyeVision machine vision software the sensor has various commands available. Starting with the “3D Blob” command which is very versatile and can be used count objects within a point cloud, the software contains commands to measure openings (holes, slots), cylinder, studs (threaded and non-threaded), plane, etc. It has also 3D volumetric tools: volumes, areas, bounding boxes, positions (min, max, centroid), ellipses, orientations, etc.

Additionally, the 3D-software now also has a “RectProbe” command to find edge-points in a certain direction and returning the detected edge. This can be useful for additional measurements on the point cloud. There are also various filter commands such as “Merge”, which merges two point clouds into one, or the filter command “Outlier Removal”, which removes all points that deviate in Z-direction from their neighbors by a certain amount. Also important is the “Voxelgrid” filter, which down-samples a point cloud using a voxel grid and outputs points that are the average of all points inside a voxel. The filter can make unordered point clouds into ordered.

EyeVision software utilizes a graphical user interface. The commands can be drag-and-dropped in a program editor, where the inspection program can be created, even without programming skills.