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.
MotionCam-3D, PhoXi 3D Scanner and Alpha — hardware manuals and datasheets, PhoXi Control, firmware, and the Python API.
Bin Picking Studio and Locator Studio — robot integration guides, solution setup, calibration, and deployment.
3D Meshing and 3D Instant Meshing — automatic 3D model creation from sensor scans, with C, C++ and Python APIs.
3D Sensors
Quick Start Guide – Unboxing, mounting, and initial setup.
3D Sensors User Manual – Hardware reference and maintenance.
3D Sensor Datasheets – Specs for MotionCam-3D, PhoXi Gen2/Gen3, and Alpha.
PhoXi Control User Manual – GUI operation, calibration, and troubleshooting.
PhoXi Python API – Public API reference (v1.0.0).
Versioning Guide – Hardware and software compatibility matrices.
Vision Guided Robotics (VGR)
Overview – What Bin Picking Studio and Locator Studio offer.
Introduction – Vision controller, user roles, and network setup.
BPS & LS Solution Setup – Sensors, scanning profiles, and calibration.
BPS Deployment – Performance inspection and tuning of a bin-picking application.
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.