Cognex Designer Standard

The Cognex Designer Standard class teaches the standard topics of how to create a vision application with the Cognex Designer programming environment which includes a built in HMI user interface.

This class gives new users an overview of the hardware and software used by Cognex Designer to quickly and efficiently program the system for automated vision inspections. With the focus on understanding image acquisition basics as well as core vision tools, users learn how to walk through the process of setting up a vision application using programming best practices of the Cognex Designer interface.

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Part Number: TRN-CD-CGNX-STD

Continuing Education Units

Cognex’s Education Services has been recognized by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) as an Accredited provider of CEUs.

Participants will earn 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) after successful completion of this training event provided they are an active participant throughout the training event, and are in attendance for 100% of the training event’s designated training hours.

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Objectives

At the end of this training event, participants will be able to:

Connect to the image source (camera or image database) and capture an image
Implement a pattern recognition tool to locate a feature in the FOV
Analyze an image for the presence/absence of a part using a Histogram tool
Create a custom user interface accessible from other devices, including status indicators, results and controls to view and affect the vision application
Configure a blob tool that will find blobs in a designated grey range
Identify applications where Caliper and Geometry tools may be part of the vision solution
Create and configure a calibration routine using the CalibNPointNPoint tool
Setup an OCRMax tool to read characters
Determine how to utilize the components in a Cognex Designer application
Outline how Cognex Designer controls communication
Employ utilities available to deploy the Cognex Designer system
Discuss different lighting techniques

Familiarity with Microsoft Windows environment
Working knowledge of C# programming language

C# programming help guide will be provided for certain class topics.

Introduction and Image Acquisition
Sequences and Programming
HMI
Vision Tools
Timers and Shift Registers
Input and Output
Deployment
Lighting and Optics

Remarks

The detailed content may vary from country to country.