In-Sight® Explorer 5.9.2 Release Notes

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Revision: 5.9.2.24, 2020 June 09

Overview

This document describes the In‑Sight Explorer software, including the following topics:

Note: Note: For the latest release notes and documentation, visit: support.cognex.com/documentation/in-sight.

System Requirements

This section describes system requirements for In‑Sight Explorer software.

PC Hardware Minimum and Recommended Requirements

Note:

Notes:

  • The following minimum hardware requirements are for PCs that are connected to a single low-resolution In-Sight vision system running at a slow production speed.
  • The following recommended hardware requirements are for PCs that are simultaneously connected to up to four In-Sight vision systems.
Minimum Recommended
Intel® Celeron® 1000M processor running at 1.8GHz (or equivalent) Intel Core™ i7 processor running at 2.7GHz (or equivalent)
2GB of available RAM 4GB of available RAM
4GB of available disk space 8GB of available disk space
Video card that can display 1024 x 768 resolution at 24-bit color depth (the DPI Display setting must be set to 96 DPI) Video card that can display 1920 x 1080 resolution at 32-bit color depth (the DPI Display setting must be set to 96 DPI)
Network interface card (at least 100Mbps) for connecting to an In-Sight vision system Gigabit network interface card for connecting to multiple In-Sight vision systems

Operating System Requirements

In-Sight software has been tested on the following operating systems:

  • Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 10 Professional (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Although you can install and run In‑Sight Explorer on other Windows operating systems, PCs that do not meet the preceding requirements are not officially supported.

Supported Languages

  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Spanish (European)

Firmware Version Support

In-Sight 5.9.2 software contains two firmware versions:

  • In-Sight 5.9.2
  • In-Sight 4.10.5 PR1

In-Sight vision systems that have older firmware versions might work properly. However, some features are unsupported with older firmware versions and are not fully tested. For optimal performance, update vision systems that run older firmware to the most recent, supported firmware versions. For a list of models and supported firmware versions, see the Firmware Versions topic in the In-Sight® Explorer Help file.

In-Sight Firmware 5.9.2

  • In-Sight 2000 series vision sensors
  • In-Sight 5705 and 5705C vision systems
  • In-Sight 7000 Gen2 series vision systems
  • In-Sight 8000 series vision systems
  • In-Sight 9000 series vision systems
  • In-Sight Advantage Engine

In-Sight Firmware 4.10.5 PR1

  • In-Sight Micro 1000 series vision systems
  • In-Sight 5000 series vision systems (except In-Sight 5705 and 5705C vision systems)
  • In-Sight 7000 series vision systems (except In-Sight 7000 Gen2 series vision systems)

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2

In-Sight software requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2. Optionally, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 can be installed. If the In-Sight software installer fails to detect Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2, it attempts to download and install it.

Note: Note: If you attempt to install In‑Sight Explorer on a system with Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 disabled while Windows updates are being installed, you may receive the following error message: Error installing Microsoft .NET Framework; Error code 0x800f081f. If this occurs, wait for the Windows updates to complete, reboot if necessary, and then install In‑Sight Explorer.

New Features

New Feature
Supports the new In-Sight 8502P, 8502CP and 8505CP vision systems.
Added the GetImageFileName spreadsheet function that allows you to retrieve the file name of an image when playing back images in the filmstrip or dragging-and-dropping an image into the spreadsheet.

Changes & Fixes

Note:

Notes:

  • For changes and fixes in previous releases, see past In‑Sight Explorer release notes. Release notes for previous 5.x.x releases are available in the In‑Sight Explorer® Help file.
  • The release notes include issue numbers (where applicable) to better track known issues reported by Cognex Technical Support.
Issue# Change/Fix Applicable Firmware Version
IS-4005 When adding a new tool to the In-Sight 2000 series vision sensor, the EasyView tags are now properly displayed in the Select EasyView Items dialog. If using In-Sight Explorer 5.9.0 or 5.9.1, the EasyView tags may not have been displayed in the Select EasyView Items dialog. 5.9.2
IS-3887 If the In-Sight 5705 vision system's Link-Speed setting is modified in the Network Settings dialog, when the vision system is power-cycled, the new setting is properly retained. Previously, the Link Speed was reset to Auto-Negotiate. 5.9.2
IS‑3577 If the vision system/sensor is assigned an IP address by a PLC over PROFINET and the vision system/sensor is power-cycled, PROFINET assigns an IP address of "0.0.0.0". You can now configure the vision system/sensor to use a valid IP address in the In-Sight Explorer Add Sensor/Device to Network dialog. When power-cycled, the new IP address is properly retained. 5.9.2

IS‑3750

Updated the upper limit value for the following parameters of the Surface Flaw tool, to support jobs on high-resolution In-Sight vision systems:

  • For the EasyBuilder Surface Flaw tool, the upper limit value for the Minimum Area and Maximum Area parameters (Flaw Detection tab) has been increased to 16,777,216.
  • For the In-Sight Explorer SurfaceFlaw function, the upper limit value for the Minimum Area, Maximum Area, Sampling Factor, Smoothing Factor and Detection Size parameters are now based on the size of the acquired image:
    • The upper limit value for the Minimum Area and Maximum Area parameters: Resolution (width * height) of the acquired image
    • The upper limit value for the Sampling Factor, Smoothing Factor and Detection Size parameters: Resolution (3 * width) of the acquired image
 5.9.2

IS‑3141

Fixed an OPC UA issue with tags containing non-ASCII characters. Now the tag names with non-ASCII characters are displayed correctly in OPC UA.

Note: Note: The OPC UA tags must be added with the User Interface Language set to the appropriate language. For example, to use the German symbols in OPC UA tags, you must set the User Interface Language (Options > User Interface > Language) to German first.
 5.9.2

Known Issues

Note: Note: The release notes include issue numbers (where applicable) to better track known issues reported by Cognex Technical Support.
Issue# Issue Affected Firmware Version

IS-2854

After a power-cycle, if the vision system/sensor receives a new trigger, no new results are added to the Sensor Filmstrip queue. However, the image and spreadsheet continue to update correctly.

 

Conditions:

  • An In-Sight vision system/sensor is configured to use the Sensor Filmstrip.
  • In the Sensor Filmstrip Settings dialog, the Queue drop-down is configured as Separate Pass and Fail Results.
  • In the Sensor Filmstrip Settings dialog, the Queue Size is increased or decreased.
  • The vision system/sensor is power-cycled.
  • After the power-cycle, the vision system receives a new trigger.

Workaround:

  1. Within In-Sight Explorer, click Sensor menu > Sensor Filmstrip Settings to launch the Sensor Filmstrip Settings dialog.
  2. From the Queue drop-down, select an option other than Separate Pass and Fail Results and click OK.
  3. Relaunch the Sensor Filmstrip Settings dialog.
  4. From the Queue drop-down, select Separate Pass and Fail Results and click OK. When the vision system/sensor is triggered, results are correctly added to the queue.
 5.9.2
FFP-1646 In-Sight 2000 series vision sensors running In-Sight firmware version 5.9.1 and later are not certified for PROFINET Conformance. To run In-Sight 2000 series vision sensors with PROFINET Conformance, you can downgrade the In-Sight 2000 series vision sensors' firmware version to In-Sight 5.9.0 or 5.8.x. 5.9.1 & 5.9.2

IS-2195

If In-Sight Explorer is installed to a PC with a Microsoft Windows 10 operating system and the Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support is checked in the Region dialog, the vision system or emulator may not be able to connect to the In-Sight Explorer Spreadsheet View.

 

Workaround: Uncheck the Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support checkbox.

  1. In the search box on the Windows taskbar, type Control Pane and select the Control Panel App.
  2. From the Windows Control Panel search box, type Region and select the Region text.
  3. In the Region dialog that opens, click the Administration tab and click the Change system locale... button.
  4. In the Region Settings dialog that opens, uncheck Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support and click OK to close the Region Settings dialog.
  5. Click OK to close the Region dialog.
  6. Reboot the PC.
 N/A
FFP‑1053

When the vision system is configured to load a job at startup (Sensor menu > Startup) and the EV SetSystemConfig OPCUA.TimeSync Extended Native Mode command is issued, OPC UA Job Tags are missing in the OPC UA client when browsing the address space (Objects > Server > VisionSystem > Results > JobTags node).

 

Workaround: Use the LoadJob method to reload the job file to the vision system/sensor. For more information, see the In-Sight® Explorer Help file.

 5.9.2
FFP-875 Sending the communication settings, such as the IP address, from Mitsubishi iQ Sensor Solution (GX Works) to the In-Sight vision system/sensor is not supported. 5.9.2
IS-334

When you try to connect your vision system/sensor to the Web HMI for the first time, you may receive an error message: Permission error appears and connection is denied.

 

Workaround: Reinstall or update the firmware on the vision system/sensor and then retry the Web HMI connection.

 5.9.2
48478 If an In‑Sight vision system that runs firmware 5.6.0 or later has a job with many instances of the ReadIDMax function, the job might require more memory than is available on the vision system. Any instances of the ReadIDMax function that exceed the available memory returns #ERR. For example, if an In‑Sight 8405 vision system job contains more than 100 instances of the ReadIDMax function, you might encounter this problem. 5.9.2
45581 For In‑Sight 7000 Gen2 series and 9000 series vision systems configured for CIP‑Sync/PTP, 1588 synchronization accuracy through a transparent clock‑switch might increase to more than 10µs offset from master. 5.9.2
35828 If an industrial Ethernet communication protocol triggers the vision system, the JobPass signal is sent only if the job contains a WriteResultsBuffer function. This issue does not occur with EasyBuilder applications once the Communication application step has been configured. 5.9.2
32479

If you update the In‑Sight vision system firmware while it is connected to a POWERLINK network, it results in a code 13710, with the vision system needing to be power cycled and the files restored (the firmware will be successfully updated, however).

 

Workaround: Before you update the vision system firmware, complete the following steps:

  1. Remove the vision system from the POWERLINK network and connect the vision system to a network port on the same subnet as the computer that runs In‑Sight Explorer.
  2. Power cycle the vision system.
  3. Update the firmware while the vision system in Ethernet mode.
  4. Place the vision system back onto the POWERLINK network.
  5. Power cycle the vision system.
 4.10.5 PR1