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Where can I get detailed documentation on the 'IVA' vision vi's created by NI Vision Assistant

I use the NI Vision Assistant a lot.  Usually I ask it to create a vi automatically from the script.  However, the resulting vi contains several 'IVA' vi's that are completely undocumented (from what I can see).  

 

Where can I get more info on these?  Examples of these are  IVA Grayfilters - Nth order.vi and IVA Store Particles Results.vi (two of many such vi's) .  They look like very useful and interesting functions but what exactly they do I can only guess.  

 

Any ideas where I can get information on these functions.

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Hi AnthonV

 

Check this link http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/B01E0904391BD43D862572B40072AE62

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Thanks but it still doesn't tell me what each of these vi's does.  Once I've prototyped something in vision assistant, the vi it generates is only the start of the vision development process.  This vi forms the backbone of my development but I need to know if I can remove some of these functions, what their parameters mean, is there a better alternative on the palette etc.

 

 

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Yes, You can remove only some of the function from your program, There will be an alternatives are also available. Post your vi so that can help you sort out much better.

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I really appreciate your offer to help, however, it would probably be better for me in the long run if I could get this info from the official help on these functions?

 

But as an example, currently I am wondering what does IVA store particle results.vi do?  It is called after IMAQ particle analysis.vi but just seems to be wasting precious processor resources.  When do I need to include this (as is done by default by vision assistant) and when can I cut it out?  It must have some purpose but who knows what this might be?

 

Thanks.

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