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Impact Reference Guide Design Tab
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Add a Task
When you click this tab, a task is added to the currently selected vision program. (See “Create a Task” on
page 3-33) This tab is disabled if the file is password protected. When you add a task, a new task tab is cre-
ated.
Summary Table
The Summary Table shows the results of all the tools that ran in the task.
When the device is online and triggering, or the Start/Stop Continuous Trigger button is pressed, the tool
results are updated continuously in the table values area. When the Impact device stops triggering, or the
Pause Summary Table button is pressed, the most recent tool results are shown.
The table refresh rate is determined by the Summary Table Refresh Rate (See “Program Preferences” on
page 3-9), the tools in the task, and the task size. Larger tasks, and more complex tools, take longer to run.
To adjust the width of each table column, click and drag the separator bar in the heading.
Summary Table Values
This area of the Summary Table shows the results of the task and each tool when it ran. If the outputs are not
visible, click on the plus sign to the left of the tool or task.
The tool’s run status is indicated by different colors in the tool row.
Yellow: If a tool fails to complete execution, for example, it aborts because an ROI is off the image,
the row is yellow. The reason for the failure is listed in the Abort Cause column.
Red: If a tool fails (its pass/fail output is false), the row is red.
Grey: If a tool runs with normal results, the row is grey.
NOTE: When running a task on an Emulator, the task times listed below are not necessarily the same times
that will occur when running the task on an actual device or camera. They are shown only for relative time
comparisons between tools and other task settings
• Run Counts
This is the number of times the tool or task has run since the program was loaded or the Reset Task
Run Count button was clicked.
• Process Time
The time since the task or tool started running (in microseconds). This is a “live” value during the run
because it is read during the run and updated to the current time. Once the task or tool finishes run-
ning, this time is locked to the time at which it finished. For the task, this is the time it took to run the
all the tools in the task with some time added for data aggregation and evaluation at the task level.