vision assistant sequence

[WillKim]

Hi.  I am using Vision Assistant 8.5 and am having trouble with the "Sequence Acquisition" button.  I am following the NI Vision Assistant Tutorial on page 2-9 (Acquiring a Sequence of Images).  However, there is NO Sequence Acquisition Wizard.  The only property that comes up is setting the "Number of Frames" only.   How can I access and set the properties:  Skip Count, Line, Action, Trigger start of acquisition, etc.?

I can view and save the images OK, but the Sequence Acquisition button does not seem to work. The 1394 camera that I'm using is the Point Grey Research DragonFly2 Camera (Dragonfly2 DR2-13S2C).

Thanks,

[VGA_CD-ROM]

Hi Willkim,
The instructions you are seeing in step 2 on that section of the page refer to images acquired using the IMAQ driver (just simply labeled Acquire Image in Vision Assistant). An example screenshot is attached below that will appear when you choose the Acquire Image step which uses the IMAQ driver. Acquisitions using the other drivers have different names. The advanced options you are referring to are only available on our framegrabbers which use the IMAQ driver, which capture images using analog, parallel digital, or Camera Link interfaces

For a Firewire camera interface, you have to either use the recommended IMAQdx (labeled Acquire Image (IEEE 1394 or GigE)) driver or the IMAQ for IEEE 1394 driver (labeled Acquire Image (IEEE 1394)). These Firewire camera drivers do not have advanced options for sequencing available like the IMAQ driver does.

The Firewire drivers also do not have separate VIs for triggering because few Firewire camera as actually support it. To enable triggering on Firewire cameras which support it, this must be done using property nodes in LabVIEW. If you look at the IMAQ Sequence and IMAQdx Sequence VIs in LabVIEW, you will see that the IMAQdx version also does not give you any options beyond the number of frames to acquire.