Software overview

Zebra 3S must be used with Aurora Imaging Design Assistant. Zebra software is supported under Windows.

Aurora Design Assistant

Aurora Design Assistant is a flowchart-based, integrated development environment (IDE). It allows you to create an imaging application without writing a single line of code. Application development is a step-by-step approach, where each step is taken from an existing toolbox and is configured through a series of dialog windows. Aurora Design Assistant runs on your development computer and uses the resources of your Zebra 3S (for example, to grab an image and communicate with connected devices) to build projects. Once the project is built and deployed, it can run without the Aurora Design Assistant interface being installed.

With Aurora Design Assistant, you can:

Create your project as a series of steps using a flowchart.

Test your project from your computer without any additional code editors or compilers and without deploying (copying and running) your project on your Zebra 3S.

Design and layout a web page (operator view) to receive operator input and to display your project's output.

Run, terminate, and re-run the project on your Zebra 3S from within Aurora Design Assistant.

Grab 3D data/images from your Zebra 3S or load them from disk.

Analyze images and 3D data using a comprehensive set of industry-proven 2D/3D analysis and measurement tools (for example, code reader and Geometric Model Finder tools). Blob and edge analysis is also supported, along with color matching, code recognition, character recognition, bead inspection, measurement, metrology, 3D processing and analysis, classification, and a number of additional processing and analysis features.

Perform calibration for 2D images.

Send and receive user-defined digital I/O signals (auxiliary I/O signals).

Write image/3D data and text files (for example, CSV) locally or on network drives.

Send and receive information and save images across the network using OPC-UA.

Provide HMI user input and result display through configurable, web-accessible operator views.

Send and receive information across the network using TCP/IP, Modbus, CCLink, EtherNet/IP, and PROFINET protocols.

Communicate with industrial robots to offer an integrated machine vision solution.

Aurora Capture Works

Aurora Capture Works is a utility that allows you to rapidly evaluate the performance and functionality of virtually any GenICam-compliant camera or 3D sensor (or other device). Aurora Capture Works will list all detected GigE Vision-compliant devices connected to your computer. It can start or stop capturing images/3D data, display acquired images/3D data, save the last grabbed image/3D data, send a software trigger, as well as browse and control the selected device's features. You can view network adapter information (such as, the IP address, packet size, inter-packet delay), view and change device information (such as, the user-defined name of your device), view and change acquisition properties, and view acquisition statistics. You can use it to configure the device and network adapter in static IP mode (or point-to-point connection mode) or DHCP mode (or corporate network mode). Aurora Capture Works uses the Aurora GigE Vision discovery service to automatically detect when GigE Vision-compliant devices are added to or removed from your network. Aurora Capture Works is distributed with Aurora Design Assistant.