# Getting Started Tutorial: Creating a Single-Camera Vision Application

This tutorial will give you experience in performing the following tasks using Cognex Designer.

- Creating a Project using a Single Camera Project Type.
- Creating tool blocks that model core tasks in a vision application.
- Working with Task Blocks in the Sequence Editor

- Adding and placing tool blocks for input, processing, and output.
- Creating tags and binding them to values.
- Connecting blocks and passing tagged values between blocks to create a task sequence.

- Customizing a VisionPro application using Quick Build.
- Adding and configuring a script block.
- Adding new objects to an HMI and then binding tagged values to those objects.
- Deploying your application as a Web Page to render it "live" in a production environment.

## Crash Course Video

Before beginning the Getting Started Tutorial, take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of Cognex Designer by watching the Crash Course Video.

The Crash Course Video introduces you to core concepts and the work flow of Cognex Designer.

in a few moments, you'll learn about:

- Common components of any Cognex Designer application.
- The purpose of the Sequence Editor and how you use Task windows to order blocks to visually model task-oriented applications.
- How values are passed and managed between Cognex Designer blocks using tags.
- Creating GUIs and HMIs with no custom coding.

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## Getting Started Video

The Crash Course video introduces you to principles and concepts. The Getting Started video explains how to perform the tasks relating to the concepts by walking you through creating a Cognex Designer Single-Camera vision application, step by step. The video content is less detailed and is presented at a faster pace than the tutorial, though both the video and tutorial cover the same content.

After reading through the Getting Started tutorial, play the video and perform the tasks described in the tutorial, using the documentation to provide additional information as you work.

In the Getting Started Video, you:

- Create a project using the built-in Project Type Single Camera.
- Acquire an Image Source using an image file database in VisionPro.
- Add additional functionality to VisionPro applications CogImageConvertTool and CogBlobTool..
- Bind tags to values and pass values between blocks.
- Create new script blocks.
- Modify a graphical HMI output with a new field and check box.
- Deploy your application on a Web page and a local HMI/GUI.

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