Photoneo Knowledge Base

Welcome to the Photoneo Knowledge Base — the central resource for Photoneo’s 3D vision products. Whether you are setting up a 3D sensor, deploying a robotic bin-picking cell, or generating 3D models from scans, pick a product area to get started, or jump straight to a popular page below.

3D Sensors

MotionCam-3D, PhoXi 3D Scanner and Alpha — hardware manuals and datasheets, PhoXi Control, firmware, and the Python API.

How to begin
Vision Guided Robotics (VGR)

Bin Picking Studio and Locator Studio — robot integration guides, solution setup, calibration, and deployment.

Documentation center
Digital Twinning

3D Meshing and 3D Instant Meshing — automatic 3D model creation from sensor scans, with C, C++ and Python APIs.

Digital Twinning

3D Sensors

Vision Guided Robotics (VGR)

  • Overview – What Bin Picking Studio and Locator Studio offer.

  • Getting Started – Solution types, vision controller, user roles, and network setup.

  • Studio Interface – Solutions, PhoXi, Software modules, and Customization pages.

  • Robot Module – Robot communication and integration guides for each robotic brand.

  • Common Setup (BPS & LS) – Object models, sensors, scanning profiles, localization, and calibration.

  • BPS Solution Setup – Tool points, gripping points, grasping methods, and environment.

  • LS Solution Setup – The object pose reported to the robot.

  • Deployment – Running a solution and troubleshooting its performance.

Digital Twinning

  • Overview – Choosing between 3D Meshing and 3D Instant Meshing.

  • 3D Meshing – High-quality 3D models from multiple scan perspectives.

  • 3D Instant Meshing – On-the-fly meshing from the MotionCam-3D (Color).

  • 3D Meshing API – C++ API reference for integrating meshing.

Guides & Support

  • Guides – Calibration, marker space, intrinsic parameters, and more.

  • Contact & Support – Reach the Photoneo team.

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