NAC camera control

[Virginia_Solomon]

Did anyone try to control NAC (high speed camera) GX-1 or GX-3 or GX-8 using Labview by accessing the registered dlls provided by NAC Image Technology?

Sincerely,

Virginia

[Tejinder_G.]

I haven't specifically worked with NAC dlls, but if you were looking for information on how to call dlls from LabVIEW, the following article may help: http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-9076

There is also a good example on how to pass various datatypes from LabVIEW, which you can find in the example finder called Call DLL.vi

As for details on how to use the particular functions in those dlls, perhaps some other users have done this.

Is there a particular reason why you aren't using Vision Acquisition Software?  Do you have an NI framegrabber?

[Virginia_Solomon]

Thank you for the replay,

My question was more specific, because having the SDK already installed but not having any camera I implemented few functions call.

More, the installed SDK registered two com components and I see Labview see very well these components as well as the properties, methods and events as they are described in the documentation. I do not have any idea in the absence of camera how camera responds to anything, so I wonder if anyone had experienced the NAC camera control.

Virginia,

[Dr_M]

Hi Virginia,

I am just about to start controlling a GX-3 camera with LV2010.  I have installed the software but I don't have a copy of the SDK documentation yet so I am just exploring.  I have only found one ActiveX object so far - NciaAx3.  What is the second?

I should have a camera to play with tomorrow.

Mike

[Virginia_Solomon]

Hi Mike,

The other component is FX_MCFF_FC.dll and is designated for image conversion as well as for playing downloaded images.

So, how is the control, is it promising as it looks? I was able to see the methods and properties just they were described.

Anyway, thank you for your answer.

Virginia

[Philipp Spiegel]

Virginia,

did you made any progress with the camera?

I'm just starting to work with the HI-Dcam II from NAC and try to use the SDK to control the camera with a labview application.

Regards,

Philipp

[Virginia_Solomon]

Yes, I did except getting a live image. So the camera adjustment is done using tv connected to video output.

Labview kit for NAC camera has good examples with the two com components. That made me dare starting the implementation. What was very difficult was the camera control integration into a very complex software using Labview which made me to open other issues with NI labview on this site and in the end I made it working but I do not know very deep why. I used lv 8.6. My software must be able to control multiple cameras in parallel with data acquisition and other controls plus to have a very sophisticate GUI.

Good luck!

Virginia

[Lázaro]

Hello . I have one camera NAC hotshot 512 and i would like to do the control and aquisition with the labview. 

However, there are some problems , the MAx and LABview don't get to identify the camera . 

how can you help me?

[Virginia_Solomon]

I do not know what means NAC hotshot camera, but cameras I controlled were very high speed cameras type GX8 and GX3 only for which I asked US NAC office for Labview drivers and they provide me with them. Of course they did not work as they were specially I had to integrate the NAC control into a difficult complex application but the main vi from the library gave me an idea of implementation.

When you install the NAC GXLink software then an activex is installed and registered then with that you can communicate and control camera, but as I said I controlled very high speed camera GX family not others.

Good luck!

[Lázaro]

Virginia. My camera is also a high speed .Make 6000 FPS . So,  NAC GXLink is the software that come with the camera, right?  where is the activex and and main vi from the library?

att.