TwinCAT 3 license dongle

TwinCAT 3 volume licenses cannot be ordered without a corresponding (reference) hardware, which is used as a reference for the volume ID of the TwinCAT 3 volume license. TwinCAT 3 volume licenses are therefore always ordered and delivered in conjunction with a Beckhoff IPC or a TwinCAT 3 license dongle in the form of an EL6070 license key terminal or a license key USB stick.

Compared to licensing an IPC, a TwinCAT 3 license dongle offers significantly greater flexibility with regard to the control computer used, since TwinCAT 3 licenses are no longer tied to a specific IPC and only has to match the hardware platform level of the associated TwinCAT 3 license. This is a great advantage when servicing is required, for example.

	Note that a TwinCAT 3 volume license terminal requires a suitable ESI file belonging to this EtherCAT Terminal. This is not supplied with TwinCAT as standard, since a TwinCAT 3 volume license terminal is a custom product. The ESI file must be downloaded once from the Beckhoff website.