National Instruments IMAQTM User Manual

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Chapter 5

Performing Machine Vision Tasks

IMAQ Vision for Visual Basic User Manual

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1.

Define a template that represents the part of the object that you want
to use as a reference feature. For more information about defining a
template, refer to the

Find Measurement Points

section.

2.

Define a rectangular search area in which you expect to find the
template.

3.

Set the

MatchMode

property of the

CWMVFindCTUsingPatternOptions object to

cwimaqRotationInvariant

when you expect the template

to appear rotated in the inspection images. Otherwise, set it to

cwimaqShiftInvariant

.

4.

Choose the results you want to overlay onto the image.

5.

Choose the mode for the method. To build a transformation for the
first time, set the

FirstRun

parameter to

True

. To update the

transformation in subsequent images, set this parameter to

False

.

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