Patent ID: 9223306
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method for editing a part program on a machine vision inspection system comprising: providing a machine vision inspection system including an imaging portion, a stage for holding one or more parts in a field of view (FOV) of the imaging portion, a motion control portion that moves the imaging portion relative to the stage, a display that displays a user interface (UI), and a controller; defining a plurality of initial part program steps and displaying corresponding part program step representations in an editing interface of the user interface; providing an editing initialization portion; operating the editing initialization portion to define at least some of the plurality of initial part program steps as editing initialization steps for the part program, wherein executing the defined editing initialization steps operates the machine vision inspection system to establish a predetermined condition for subsequent editing of the part program; and operating the editing initialization portion such that when a part program is recalled for editing, the recalled part program is checked for defined editing initialization steps, and if the recalled part program includes defined editing initialization steps, then the editing initialization portion performs one of (a) prompting the user with a user interface feature in the editing interface that indicates that the editing initialization steps may be run, and (b) running the editing initialization steps before allowing addition of steps to the part program.