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title: "Description"
description: "What LumiScan VGR Engineering does, who it is for and how its output is used by LumiScan VGR."
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# Description – LumiScan VGR Engineering

LumiScan VGR Engineering guides you through configuring other HD Vision Systems software, above all LumiScan VGR. Instead of editing a settings file by hand, you work with the elements of your application: the tool shows the settings that matter for each element, previews the effect of the current values and suggests sensible ones. When a camera is configured, for example, it lists the cameras that are available, shows their live image and point cloud with the settings you have chosen, and so makes it obvious whether the settings are suitable. The finished configuration is exported in the format that LumiScan VGR reads directly.

## How it fits in with LumiScan VGR

LumiScan VGR runs the vision-guided robotics application on the production system; its behaviour is defined by a JSON settings file (see [JSON Settings](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-vgr/1.8.4/json-settings.html) in the LumiScan VGR manual). LumiScan VGR Engineering is the tool that creates and maintains this file:

1. You build the configuration from three kinds of [elements](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-vgr-engineering/1.0.0/elements.html) - **cameras**, **object detections** and **robots** - and connect them: a camera produces an image, an object detection consumes it, and the result is used to control a robot.
2. The preview shows, for the selected element, what LumiScan VGR will see with the current settings.
3. **Download** exports the configuration as a `.zip` file that contains the settings both in the format of LumiScan VGR Engineering (to continue editing later) and in the format of LumiScan VGR or other compatible software (to put into operation).

A configuration can be saved and re-opened at any time, and files that the settings refer to - a `.hdvcal` camera calibration file, for example - are uploaded into the tool.

## Who it is for

LumiScan VGR Engineering is intended for the integrator or engineer who sets up and maintains a LumiScan VGR application: commissioning a new cell, changing a camera or gripper, adding an object, or checking a configuration before it goes into production. Day-to-day operation of the running application takes place in LumiScan VGR itself.