Gocator 2300 & 2880 Series
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GenTL Driver
GenTL is an industry standard method of controlling and acquiring data from an imaging device.
Gocator provides a GenTL driver that allows GenTL-compliant third-party software (e.g., Halcon and
Common Vision Blox) to acquire and process 3D point clouds and intensity generated from the
Gocator's Video, Profile (with Uniform Spacing disabled)and Surface modes in real-time.
You can download the toolset package containing the driver from the LMI Technologies website at
http://lmi3d.com/support/downloads/. Click on the link for your sensor, click on Product User Area, and
log in.
After downloading the tool package (14405-x.x.x.x_SOFTWARE_GO_Tools.zip), unzip the file. The driver
is found under the GenTL\x86 directory.
To install the driver in Windows 7:
1. Open the Control panel.
2. Select System and Security and then click System.
3. Click Advanced System Settings.
The Advanced System Settings link is typically in the left column of the window.
4. For 32-bit systems, click New to create a system environment variable GENICAM_GENTL32_PATH and
point it to the GenTL\x86 directory.
If the system environment variable already exists, click Edit.
5. For 64-bit systems, click New to create a system environment variable GENICAM_GENTL64_PATH and
point it to the GenTL\x64 directory.
If the system environment variable already exists, click Edit.
To work with the Gocator GenTL driver, the Gocator must operate in Surface or Video mode with its the
appropriate output enabled in the Ethernet panel in the Output page. Check Acquire Intensity in the
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