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    MikroCAD SDK Examples
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This SDK contains 4 small example projects to show case the use of the MikroCAD SDK. 
Each project is self contained and stored in a folder named after the project.

The folder layout of the SDK is as follows:

\SDK
   \Bin									-> contains necessary dll, lib files, also target for example executables
   \examples
      SDK_Examples.sln              -> SDK solution file containing the 4 projects
	  \brightness
	     brightness.vcxproj           -> Project file for the example brightness app
		 brightness.cpp                 -> source code for the example brightness app
	  \camera_image
	     camera_image.vcxproj			    -> Project file for the example camera_image app
		 camera_image.cpp               -> source code for the example camera_image app
		 BITMAP8.cpp
		 BITMAP8.h
	  \measure_image
	     measure_image.vcxproj			  -> Project file for the example measure_image app
		 measure_image.cpp              -> source code for the example measure_image app
		 BITMAP8.cpp
		 BITMAP8.h
	  \measure_points					
  	     measure_points.vcxproj     -> Project file for the example measure_points app
		 measure_points.cpp             -> source code for the example measure_points app
   \include     						        -> Header files for the API interface
         *.h
   \lib     						             -> Library files for the API interface

brightness
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Sample application that shows to initialize a MikroCAD sensor and interactively set the 
brightness on any level between lowest and highest brightness setting.

camera_image
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Sample application that shows to initialize a MikroCAD sensor and record and save a live
camera image to a BMP file named "liveimage.bmp".

measure_image
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Sample application that shows to initialize a MikroCAD sensor, start measurement 
acquisition and generate the following image files:
"3dres.bmp": image containing the height data scaled to 8bit (255 heights)
"3dres_texture.bmp": image that contains the texture 8bit gray scales
"3dres_valid.bmp": image containing the valid data as bitmap stored as 8bit
 
measure_points
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Sample application that shows to initialize a MikroCAD sensor start measurement 
acquisition and generate a 3D point ASCII point file named "result3dlist.txt".

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For the examples run successfully it must be ensured that the Basler and AVT camera 
driver are installed in their specific version
Basler: Basler pylon x64 4.2.0.4240.exe
AVT: AVTVimba_v1.3_Windows.exe (v. 1.3.0.13805)
Also add the directories contanign the camera runtime dll's to the PATH variable.

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Other files:
	
	BITMAP8.h
	BITMAP8.cpp
	
	Helper functions to generate BMP objects and write them to BMP image files.

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Notes: The MS Visual Studio solution and project files have been generated using the
freely available Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2013 Edition. For more information 
see: https://www.visualstudio.com/