In-Sight® Explorer 6.1.3 Release Notes

Revision: 6.1.3.8, 2021 March 24

Overview

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

System Requirements
New Features
Changes & Fixes
Known Issues

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

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^® 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 6.1.3 software contains three firmware versions:

In-Sight 6.1.3
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 6.1.3

In-Sight 2000 series vision sensors
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 5.9.2

In-Sight 5705 and 5705C vision systems

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. If the In-Sight software installer fails to detect Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2, it attempts to download and install it.

New Features

New Features

Changes & Fixes

Notes:

For changes and fixes in previous releases, see past In‑Sight Explorer release notes. Release notes for previous 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-4938	Fixed a condition where, if the state of a conditionally controlled cell becomes enabled during an inspection, it and the downstream dependencies of that cell were not taken into account until the next inspection.	6.1.3
IS-4809	Fixed an issue that was preventing the camera’s IP address to be assigned by ProfiNET PLCs.	6.1.3
IS-4890	Fixed an issue that was preventing the 85xx from setting its pulsed output length below 10ms.	6.1.3

Known Issues

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

Issue#	Issue	Affected Firmware Version