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Impact Reference Guide Creating a Vision Program
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2. Click the New button in the toolbar. The following dialog is displayed.
Enter a name for the Vision Program file in the File Name field. This must be a unique name and
names are case sensitive. The Program name "Inspection" is assigned by default. To assign a different
Program name, click the Advanced button. The program name can be filtered by the Program name
entered in the Display Tab Program Filter field in the File Manager. See “File Manager Setup Tab” on
page 2-37. IMPORTANT: Program names are case sensitive.
3. Click OK to create the Vision Program file.
4. Add and create tasks as desired. (See “Create a Task” on page 3-33.)
5. Click the Save button in the toolbar.
Advanced Vision Programs
You can create Vision Program files that contain supporting Programs. These files are sometimes called rec-
ipe files.
To create a supporting file
1. Start VPM.
2. Click the New button in the main toolbar. Enter an Inspection File Name. IMPORTANT: File names
are case sensitive.
3. Click the Advanced button in the New File dialog. The following dialog is displayed.
4. Click the Supporting File radio button.
5. Enter a name in the Program Name field. The program name can be filtered by the Program name
entered in the Display Tab Program Filter field in the File Manager. See “File Manager Setup Tab” on
page 2-37.
6. Click OK.
7. Add and create tasks as desired. (See “Create a Task” on page 3-33.)