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15 years ago Rockwell had nothing that even resembled Codesys in terms of upper level formatting. Then along came AOIs in the CLX family. I absolutely admit that Rockwell's AOI functionality is nowhere near as clean as a Codesys function/function block implementation (not even considering the distinction between a function and a function block). However, had you come at your first Beckhoff project with 5 years of today's CLX experience under your belt as opposed to 5 years of PLC5/SLC or even early CLX experience under your belt I strongly suspect you would have done things much differently.
Rockwell is behind and playing catch-up and so are Rockwell programmers. But considering all the "I HATE that tag-based ****!!" posts we get on this forum, can you blame Rockwell for not living on the bleeding edge? Perception is reality.
Keith
Originally posted by Archie:
When I did my first Beckhoff TwinCAT project, I dove in head first to a big project. My mistake was going into it with an AB programming mentality.
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Originally posted by Archie:
After 15+ years working with Beckhoff and 20+ years with AB...
15 years ago Rockwell had nothing that even resembled Codesys in terms of upper level formatting. Then along came AOIs in the CLX family. I absolutely admit that Rockwell's AOI functionality is nowhere near as clean as a Codesys function/function block implementation (not even considering the distinction between a function and a function block). However, had you come at your first Beckhoff project with 5 years of today's CLX experience under your belt as opposed to 5 years of PLC5/SLC or even early CLX experience under your belt I strongly suspect you would have done things much differently.
Rockwell is behind and playing catch-up and so are Rockwell programmers. But considering all the "I HATE that tag-based ****!!" posts we get on this forum, can you blame Rockwell for not living on the bleeding edge? Perception is reality.
Keith