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## Using a Single uEye Camera to Create Multiple "Virtual" Cameras

PC-DMIS Vision supports IDS uEye cameras. With this type of camera, you can define multiple camera configurations which PC-DMIS will then treat as virtual cameras. One possible application of this capability would be to create a full field of view (FOV) and a zoomed in view. This would then emulate a dual camera/dual optics hardware configuration using a single camera and optics hardware structure.

Up to nine UEye INI files can be specified and used to create the desired configuration of virtual cameras.

The presence of an underscore followed by a number at the end of the frame grabber configuration file name indicates the use of multiple camera configurations. The number specifies the number of camera configurations, and thus camera configuration files, which are to be used. For example, if you had an INI file name of c:\IDS_2.ini, it would cause PCDMIS to use c:\IDS_1.ini and c:\IDS_2.ini configuration files to create two virtual cameras.

When defining probe tips in PCDMIS, you can specify which virtual camera to use just like you would specify multiple physical cameras, by selecting the Edit button for the specified tip in the Probe Utility dialog box.