Once in a while I am asked to look at some Cognex vision programming/cameras in our plant from 5 - 10 years ago. It seems every time I open up a program from a long time ago using later Insight Explorer software, I get a bunch of errors (unlicensed tools, etc.).
Another time I made some modifications using a later software version and I guess newer tools. I went to download the updated program to the camera in the plant and it wasn't able to. Something about incompatible firmware or something like this. It was very frustrating because I spent a long time making the new program offline and it wouldn't work.
What's the best way to keep everything sync'd up so I don't have these problems? I work on stuff like this once a year on average and we have cameras with various firmware versions.
Another time I made some modifications using a later software version and I guess newer tools. I went to download the updated program to the camera in the plant and it wasn't able to. Something about incompatible firmware or something like this. It was very frustrating because I spent a long time making the new program offline and it wouldn't work.
What's the best way to keep everything sync'd up so I don't have these problems? I work on stuff like this once a year on average and we have cameras with various firmware versions.