A Frame Grabber is a PC board that converts an analog video signal to a digital signal. This creates individual pictures or frames that the software can then retrieve and analyze. PC-DMIS Vision supports multiple Frame Grabbers as the video data input. The Frame Grabber delivers the live image from your analog camera to the Live View in PC-DMIS.
Digital cameras act as a combined camera and frame grabber since they already provide the video image data in digital form.
You need to install and configure the vendor-specific software for your camera or frame grabber before PC-DMIS Vision can process the camera's images. Digital cameras use configuration files provided by the factory to match the camera behavior with the machine and the PC.
For details on how to setup and configure a vision Frame Grabber and camera in PC-DMIS, see the "PC-DMIS Vision Frame Grabber and Camera Setup" section of the MIIM documentation.
The MIIM is typically used only by Hexagon service engineers.