# AlignPlus Overview

AlignPlus 4.3 is specifically designed for making it easy to develop & deploy multi-station, multi-camera 2D vision guided alignment applications. It provides a convenient graphical configuration that is flexible to handle a wide range of machine designs. Based on the user configuration selections, a deployment ready vision application is self-generated. For further application customization, user editable Cognex Designer project is also provided.

The automatically generated application consists of the following key elements:

- Vision Tasks

  - Calibration, Train time and Run Time tasks

- Pose Computing Tasks

  - Calculates the required motion to align or assemble part to the target pose

- Operator Interface

  - Manual trigger buttons

  - Setup & Run Time User Interfaces

- Common Alignment Functions

  - L-Check, Offset Compensation, Manual Alignment, Motion System Analysis

- System Utilities

  - Recipe management, User Management, Multi-Language, Data Logging, Image Saving

- Communication interface

  - TCP/IP commands for interfacing with external controllers such as PLCs and Robot controllers

In addition to cutting down project development time, the added benefit of the auto-generated project is standardization across different machine designs and projects. This makes it easier to hand-over & maintain projects between developers and between field engineers.

For OEMs who prefer to develop their own project from scratch, but want to utilize powerful alignment functionality, AlignPlus also provides calibration, feature finding and pose computing components that can be included in the OEM’s Cognex Designer projects.