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Chapter 2
Software Overview
NI 177x Smart Camera User Manual
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Configuring the NI Smart Camera with Vision Builder AI
Vision Builder AI is interactive, menu-driven configuration software for
developing, benchmarking, and deploying machine vision applications.
With Vision Builder AI, you can perform powerful visual inspection tasks
and make decisions based on the results of individual tasks. You can also
migrate your inspection to LabVIEW to extend the capabilities of your
application, if necessary. The latest version of Vision Builder AI is
included with the NI 177x Smart Camera.
Complete the following steps to install Vision Builder AI and configure the
NI 177x Smart Camera.
1.
Install and activate Vision Builder AI on the development computer.
Refer to the
NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection Readme
for
installation instructions.
2.
Launch Vision Builder AI.
3.
On the Vision Builder AI welcome screen, select the NI 177x Smart
Camera in the list of targets.
If the NI 177x Smart Camera does not appear in the list of targets,
verify that the device has power and is connected to an Ethernet port
on the same subnet as the development computer, then click
Refresh
Target List
. Refer to Chapter 7,
for information about
LED status messages.
4.
Click
Install Software
. The Remote Target Configuration Wizard
launches in a new window.
5.
In the
Name
field, enter a name for the device. Use the
Description
field to enter any additional information or a brief description of the
device.
Device names are limited to 31 characters with no spaces or special
characters, except hyphens. The first and last characters must be
alphanumeric.
6.
Click
Next
.
Configure the IP Address
Complete the following steps to configure IP address settings for the
NI 177x Smart Camera in the The Remote Target Configuration Wizard.
1.
If the network is configured to issue IP addresses using DHCP, select
Obtain IP address from DHCP server
. Otherwise, configure the
IP address manually by selecting
Edit the IP settings
and clicking
Suggest Values
.