View Files Stored on the In-Sight Vision System

View files stored on the vision system either using The File Management utility in In-Sight Vision Suite or a third-party FTP client, such as FileZilla Client. The FTP client must support TLS 1.3.

Viewing files this way is useful if you use the WriteImage or WriteData function Functions are tools that are available in Spreadsheet for processing and analyzing acquisitions or other results. You can add functions to your Spreadsheet job to create tool chains and produce results for specific applications. to write files to the internal storage of the vision system.

View Files in In-Sight Vision Suite

To view files on the vision system:

  1. Launch In-Sight Vision Suite if it is not already running.

  2. Left-click the vision system you want to configure on the In-Sight® Device Pane on the left. The list of Utilities applicable to the selected vision system then appears at the bottom of the window.

  3. Click the File Management button. The utility dialog then opens.

  4. Browse the directory tree. Copy, move, or delete files as needed.

For more information, see the In-Sight Vision Suite Help documentation.

View Files Using FileZilla Client

To view files using FileZilla Client:

  1. Download FileZilla Client from filezilla-project.org and install it.

  2. Open FileZilla Client.

  3. Configure the following fields:

    Field Description
    Host The host name or IP address of the vision system. You can find these details in In-Sight Vision Suite after you select a vision system.
    Username

    The user credentials of the vision system.

    • The default username is admin.

    • The default password is blank.

    Note: You can change the credentials using the User Settings utility.
    Password

  4. Click Quickconnect.

  5. You can now view the stored files.

The Field Path field in In-Sight 3D Spreadsheet determines where the vision system saves the files. If you leave the File Path field blank, the files are saved to the root directory.

Create a Subfolder Using FileZilla Client

If you want to separate images from text files, create a folder structure on the vision system using FileZilla Client.

The following example walks you through creating a subfolder Job1 under the Images directory:

  1. In FileZilla Client, right-click on the Images directory and select Create directory. The Create directory dialog appears.

  2. In the dialog, enter /Job1, then click OK.

    The Job1 subfolder is now available under the Images directory.

  3. In In-Sight 3D Spreadsheet, connect to the vision system.

  4. Enter Images/Job1 to the File Path field in the WriteImage property sheet, using forward slash as the folder separator.

  5. Click OK to close the property sheet.

    Now the images are sent to the Job1 subfolder under the Images directory.