What happened to Vision Assistant

[instrumento]

I've installed (upgraded to) NI Vision Dev 23.0.0 a while back.  LabVIEW version is 2022Q3. Yesterday I went looking for Vision Assistant and is nowhere to be found.

Trying to install it with Package Manager claims nothing to do.  Uninstalling to re-install will also uninstall Vision Acquisition (IMAQ) thus I didn't go there, yet.

Looking through the pool folder on the install iso image, there are a bunch of files with assistant on it.  I was able to install something that called itself Vision Assistant (Legacy). Legacy?  Is there a non-legacy version?  I thought Assistant came with the Vision Development Module.

I can run that Assistant, but not generate LabVIEW code with it, which I've done in the past with previous versions.  I tried installing several 2022/codegen packages to no avail.

Confused.

[softball]

Hi

I don't know if this helps You, but hope so.

2022 Q3 could be installed with a matching 2022 Q3 Vision Assistant :

The Assistant is a standalone application with a link found the Vision start program sub-folder.

The software also included a 'Vision Assistant' Express VI :

For others reading this thread and confused about the Builder versus Assistant, NI once stated this :

Re: Vision Builder vs Vision Assistant

risheeb

NI Employee (retired)

‎03-10-2008 11:35 AM

Hi Doug,

The main difference between Vision Builder and the Vision Assistant is that Vision Builder is used for inspection and Vision Assistant is used for image processing.

Vision Builder is used for acquiring an image and performing an inspection on it, such as pattern matching, edge detection, and so forth.  From Vision Builder, you can call Vision Assistant, which allows you to enhance the image itself by extracting a color plane, filtering noise, and so on.  For instance, you may be using Vision Builder to detect an edge in your image.  If you find you are having difficulty detecting the edge in Vision Builder, you may decide to first run a Vision Assistant step where you apply a filter to the image to enhance the edge contrast.

I hope this clears things up a little.

Rishee B.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

Regards

[risheeb]

Hi Doug,

The main difference between Vision Builder and the Vision Assistant is that Vision Builder is used for inspection and Vision Assistant is used for image processing.

Vision Builder is used for acquiring an image and performing an inspection on it, such as pattern matching, edge detection, and so forth.  From Vision Builder, you can call Vision Assistant, which allows you to enhance the image itself by extracting a color plane, filtering noise, and so on.  For instance, you may be using Vision Builder to detect an edge in your image.  If you find you are having difficulty detecting the edge in Vision Builder, you may decide to first run a Vision Assistant step where you apply a filter to the image to enhance the edge contrast.

I hope this clears things up a little.

Rishee B.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[instrumento]

2022 Q3 could be installed with a matching 2022 Q3 Vision Assistant

Thanks for the quick reply, but is there a separate 2022 Q3 Vision Assistant download?  Most google searches and some posts in this forum claim it is included with Vision Development Module. 

Or do the versions of LV, LV VDM need to match, as I have LV 2022Q3 and VDM 2023Q1, for one to get Assistant?  And the install from the pool of this last one does install one Assistant that looks just like the one you posted an image of, calls it legacy. and I can't find the package that generates LV code.

Also, there is no link for Assistant or Assistant documentation, with my install, with the one for the executable now there with my partial install.

Guess I'll have to go through the pain of uninstalling VDM and IMAQ and try again.  Or give up on Assistant and code it myself, which I've started, but sometimes it is easier to try things in Assistant.

[ZYOng · Accepted solution]

NI modules are version dependent and only installed with the same version of LabVIEW.

NI Vision Assistant is technically a separate package but it won't install without VDM. For LabVIEW code generation, you need NI Vision Support for LabVIEW package.

In short, you need the same version of LabVIEW and VDM to get Vision Assistant and code generation.

[instrumento]

Thanks softball and zyong.  Matching LV and VDM install Assistant and Code generation works.