Step 1 : First open your visual studio ->File ->New->Project->Select. A PLC library is provided for implementing a Modbus TCP. In server mode the memory areas of several TwinCAT runtime systems can be mapped directly to the Modbus memory areas. It provides both server and client functionalities. TwinCAT Modbus acts as gateway between Modbus TCP devices and TwinCAT runtime systems. TF6250 TwinCAT 3 Modbus TCP.
As I was working in a development project that had many PLCs (hundreds!) with different versions of TwinCAT, I finally had a good excuse to dive into the details of this. I've talked to numerous automation engineers regarding this topic, and everyone seems to have a different understanding about it. What's even worse is that the information regarding development, deployment, and just general handling of several TwinCAT versions on the Beckhoff website is not that good.
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We knew about the remote manager functionality (which had just been introduced in 4022), and we made sure to pin the project to 4022.14:Though we shall use only one file in this example, but we have added 3 just. 14, which at that moment in time was the latest version. We were developing PLC software for a system running TwinCAT. These enable among other things the use of object-oriented techniques such as single inheritance, interfaces, methods and attributes, which significantly increase both the reusability and the quality of the control code.I'm going to describe a (real world) use case.
Pinning! The reason we had not discovered this earlier was because we had used separate virtual machines for every project, and every virtual machine just had one version of TwinCAT installed. Every single person I've ever worked with has made the same assumption, and when we noticed our mistake it was a moment of AHA! Pinning just sounded so. When you are referencing a library in your project, you can either resolve it to a fixed version or to *, which just means the latest version that is available on the machine and not (as we had mistakenly assumed) the latest version of the library that is available for that particular version of TwinCAT XAE. My main development machine for example looks like this when I select a TwinCAT version in the remote manager:As can be seen, several of the libraries are a newer version (for example, Tc2_Utilities going from 3.3.26.0 to 3.3.38.0). As we were working on many different projects simultaneously we needed to support different versions of TwinCAT. Time passed, and since 4022.14 Beckhoff has released several new versions of TwinCAT.
One compiled with a machine that had 4022.14 installed, and a few newer versions installed. One compiled with a machine that had only 4022.14 installed If I open the mentioned project in a machine that has a vast amount of TwinCAT XAEs installed, and I go to the Properties of the PLC project and then to the Compile-tab it will look like this if the project is not pinned:The keyword here is the "Resolved by placeholder redirection", that means that we explicitly referenced a specific version of a library.
722 324 bytes on the machine with many TwinCAT versionsAlso the. 720 000 bytes on the 4022.14-only machine Despite our effort of pinning the project and locking every library to the same version that was shipped with 4022.14, the two compiled programs differed in size! The compiled.
Now we had no other choice than to contact Beckhoff support. Sure enough, it was exactly the same software in both machines. We got nervous and double-checked whether we actually compiled the same software and that we had cloned the correct version of the software from Git. When logging in to the PLC, we again got the question if we wanted to do online change, which meant the two programs were truly different.
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This can have many reasons other than the obvious one that you want to deliver what you tested. Some recommendationsAt some point or another you will be getting close to the delivery of a system, and you will want to know exactly what you deliver. 721 156 bytes) difference in the compiled code, but now compiling the software and logging in to the PLC with it didn't bring up any "online change" window, which I guess means that the actual executed code is identical, so we considered this "good enough". Doing the whole procedure all over again (but this time for 4022.29) still revealed a (smaller 720 984 vs. As I'm not a big fan of upgrading well-tested and working software (mostly for this reason), I wasn't too happy about it but an upgrade we eventually did.
Beckhoff provides these image files for some of their PLCs, although not all and you would need to go through the local Beckhoff support if it's not available on their FTP. Examples of these are the TF6310 TCP/IP, TF6100 OPC-UA and TF6250 Modbus TCP supplements.Make a backup/copy of the complete operating system image that is provided from Beckhoff for the system that you want to maintain. If you do this and open the project on a machine that does not have the correct version installed, you will receive a warning which is beneficial.Make a backup/copy of the correct version of all the supplements that you might use that had to be installed separate from the TwinCAT XAR. This will guarantee that the correct compiler is used. Or maybe the PLC might break? To guarantee that the software can be re-built there are some things that you should consider doing:Pin the TwinCAT software (by the Pin Version option).
Even if you contact the local Beckhoff support and ask if you can get a list showing which versions of the libraries are connected to which version of TwinCAT you won't get one. There is no difference (in this aspect). Just as the TwinCAT XAE doesn't know which version of a library that you have developed belongs to a certain version of the XAE, it doesn't know it about the Beckhoff libraries either. Installing more XAEs into your development environment is going to make the available compilers and versions of the libraries continuously grow. There is simply no direct link to the TwinCAT XAE version. Some thoughtsNowadays I like to think of the Beckhoff libraries as just any other libraries you might have installed on your development computer.
It's about taking some responsibility for quality and making it easier for the next person that will have to maintain the software.This raises a question of architecture for larger projects. It's not about being a control freak and knowing exactly each and every byte that goes into the PLC. If we as software developers don’t take this seriously, why then should we even care about what exact version of a library is used, or what exact version of a compiler was used to build the project? For me, having a software engineering background I think we can be just as good as in the IT world. It simply seems that it's only necessary to make the machine work, and then possibly leave a laptop in a closed shelf next to the machine with a folder called "Machine Software Version ". With only one version of the TwinCAT XAE installed, I can go to the library repository and see which versions of a library are installed for that particular XAE.From what I've seen so far, in the world of automation even the stuff that is basic in the IT world as version control are not taken seriously.
Maybe you already have a test server that manages all software for all versions of TwinCAT and want to streamline the building into that pipe? Or maybe you want to do it the old fashioned way, possibly the way that the average automation engineer would solve it, by simply having a separate laptop/computer for each PLC and lock that computer into a valve.
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