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How to Enable or Disable Vision Tools in In-Sight Vision Suite EasyBuilder Job via Industrial Protocol

This article describes how you can enable or disable tools through industrial protocols (like Profinet or EtherNet/IP) in an EasyBuilder job using In-Sight Vision Suite software

01/31/2025

Question

The Enabled property is not accessible as an industrial protocol input in In-Sight Vision Suite EasyBuilder jobs. How can I control this Enabled property through industrial protocols?

 

Answer

This can be done by linking the Enabled property through a Math tool cell, as described below.
 

  1.    Add a Math tool to the job and put one of the below functions into a cell:
       -   Editint(0,1)
       -   CheckBox("")

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  2. Add that cell reference in the Input buffer of the selected communication protocol, and set its Data Type to Bit or an Integer, whatever is preferred:

    how-to-enable-or-disable-vision-tools-in-In-sight-vision-suite-easybuilder-job-via-industrial-protocol-img2

  3. Click on the link icon next to the Enabled property of the tool that you would like to control, and select the same cell reference:

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