v4.1.3, April 2012 Visionscape FrontRunner™ User’s Manual 2-1
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FrontRunner™
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CHAPTER 2 FrontRunner™
Overview
FrontRunner™ is a comprehensive vision development environment you
use to create, edit, tryout, and run vision applications.
Note: Use AppRunner to monitor a Job on the device (see the
Visionscape
®
AppRunner™ User’s Manual).
When working with Visionscape
®
applications, you access the
Visionscape
®
Vision hardware in one of two modes:
• In Setup mode, the setup objects control the hardware. You can train
and tryout tools and debug your Job.
• In Runtime mode, you download your Job to the GigE Camera or VS-
1 Smart Camera for full speed operations. The runtime objects
control the hardware; the set-up objects cannot be used to edit the
Job. You can start and stop vision inspections at runtime, as well as
receive inspection results and runtime images.
Note: The Setup and Runtime modes are mutually exclusive: only one
mode can control a vision system.
FrontRunner™ supports single or multiple Visionscape
®
Vision Systems.
You can create and save vision Jobs in FrontRunner™, train tools,
examine Inspection reports, and monitor I/O activity. FrontRunner™ is
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