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Chapter 1
Visionscape® Overview
1-10 Visionscape FrontRunner™ User’s Manual v4.1.3, April 2012
FIGURE 1–6.
Job Tree
In Visionscape
®
V4.1, FrontRunner™ can open and save single Vision
System Step files. This opens or saves a specific Vision System Step tree
rather than all systems at once, allowing you to work with each system
exclusively.
Vision System Step
The Vision System Step is the step representation of a Vision System
itself. A Vision System is an object that can use hardware to execute
vision programs. The hardware can be a GigE Camera, a Smart Camera,
or software that is not connected to any specific hardware at all. The
Vision System Step can take control of a specific Vision System on the
AvpBackplane, and can be changed later to assume a different Vision
System. The Vision System Step has parameters that allow you to set the
camera type to be used by the system, set the parameters of the
bufferpool for this Vision System, and set the general purpose I/O
configuration. Essentially, the step provides the parameters to configure
the actual hardware of the Vision System.
The Vision System Step also contains all the Inspections that are used by
the Vision System, as shown in Figure 1-7.
FIGURE 1–7.
Three Inspections
Inspection
The Inspection Step represents one thread of execution for your vision
application. The Inspection is the entry point for execution whether you
are setting up your application or executing your application. You can
create any number of Inspections in a Vision System, and each can be
Visionscape Vision System #1 (Vision System Step)
Job Container Step
Inspection Step