Vision Builder for Automated Inspection Development Toolkit Missing / Can't install in 2012

[bean123]

I'm trying to install the VBAI development toolkit.  I have licenses and have installed:

NI LabVIEW 2012 Professional Version

NI Vision Toolkit

NI Realtime

I can not find any options in LabVIEW 2012 for the VBAI dev toolkit so I tried to re-run the installation and it states:

"The Vision Builder for Automated Inspection Development Toolkit requires LabVIEW 2011 to be installed, Please install LabVIEW 2011...."

Why can't I install it on LabVIEW 2012?  2012 has been out for 1 year ...does VBAI not support LV 2012?

Do I have to install Labview 2011 to get this to work?!  I don't have the DVD's for 2011 so it will be a royal PITA to have to install.

[ChristopheC · Accepted solution]

Hi,

> Why can't I install it on LabVIEW 2012?

Vision Builder AI 2012 is a LabVIEW application which was built with and requires the LabVIEW 2011 run-time engine.

The VBAI SDK, just as the Run LabVIEW step, require the same version of LabVIEW VBAI was built with.

We could technically remove this limitation on Windows, which would have serious performance implications on the performance of the custom steps, but many customers who design custom steps also want them to run on remote targets (such as smart cameras, EVS or CVS). It is currently not possible to support multiple side by side installations of LabVIEW on real-time targets. For that reason, we made the decision to only support the version of LabVIEW VBAI is designed with.

Please contact your NI sales representative to get a copy of LabVIEW 2011 that you need for the SDK.

The next version of VBAI (2013), will support LabVIEW 2012 for the SDK and run LabVIEW steps.

Best regards.

[bean123]

Thanks for the answer.  That makes sense now.