Beckhoff twincat change programming language

JOLTRON said:

Hello all,

I have a new project coming up and it will require me to use twincat. I went to the beckhoff site and downloaded the 30 day trial to get a fell for it, but I can't seem to find where to change the programmin language to a Structured Text style. I tried opening the help file and that told me to download a full version. I tried opening a few help files online but they all said web page cannot be displayed. Can anyone help?

-Joel

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JOLTRON said:

ADDED: Also if anyone knows of a tutorial on how to setup and map I/O with the system manager it would be greatly appreciated. So far I have found OSCAT and have downloaded some basic programming examples from there.

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JOLTRON said:

Thanks WEO, but how about if a POU is already created?
I've clicked them, doulbe clicked them, right clicked them, edit object. But can't find anything to change something already created

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Jon R said:

You can convert POUs between certain languages, although I haven't tried it so I am not sure how it works. If you right click on the relevant POU it will give you the languages to convert between.

I have just completed my first project with TwinCat using 12 BC9100 controllers. Using ST to create custom function blocks meant the programming went quickly and chages to a single FB would be quickly copied across all the other systems.

Whilst I am sure other IEC languages function in a similar way I really liked how easy TwinCat made it to get the project how I wanted, and the integration with Indusoft was easy as well.

Jon.

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