Cognex Designer Integrated Development Environment

This section describes the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of Cognex Designer. This is used to develop your machine vision application prior to deployment.

Graphical Features of the IDE

The Cognex Designer IDE supports the following graphical features;

• Rich Text, making pin names more readable
• Multi-line Text that can be used when adding labels
• Arrowheads available with lines
• Enhanced Zoom-in and Zoom-out capability

Cognex Designer IDE Areas

The Cognex Designer IDE is structured into four main areas.

1. The Project Explorer, which is used to add, configure and organize everything within your project.

   • System
   • Recipes
   • Tasks
   • Web Pages
   • Pages
   • Scripting
   • Components
   • Devices
   • Databases

2. The Project Editors, which are used to construct your project:

   • Task Editor
   • Page Editor
   • Expression Builder
   • Tag Manager
   • Script Editor
   • Recipe Editor
   • Alarm Editor
   • Precision IO Configuration Editor

3. The Project Windows area, which are used to navigate your project:

   • Search
   • Tags Window
   • Templates Window
   • Toolbox

4. The Project Diagnostics area is used to monitor your project:

   • Errors
   • Output
   • Project Verification
   • Watch
   • Communications Monitor