A successful spreadsheet vision job is not a pile of tools. It is a sequence: a good image, good fixturing, good tools, good math, good I/O, and a good HMI.
Wizard-style builders are useful for simple jobs and awkward for complex ones, but their order is still the right mental model. Image formation comes first because every later tool inherits contrast, focus, and part presentation. Fixturing then locks a stable reference so measurement and reading regions move with the part. Tools extract features. Math turns those features into pass, fail, and messages. I/O delivers a handshake the machine can trust. The HMI explains the result to a person who was not in the room when the job was written. Skipping a milestone does not save time. It moves the failure downstream, where it is harder to see.