TwinCAT integration

This section describes the settings that have been specially added for the Remote Manager functionality in TwinCAT.

TwinCAT XAE Remote Manager Toolbar

Use the TwinCAT XAE Remote Manager Toolbar to manually select the used TwinCAT version. This lists all installed TwinCAT 3 versions that can be loaded to the opened Visual Studio Shell.

Remote Manager versions can be installed later. You can find them in the download area of our homepage.

Open from Target

To load a project from the target system, use the option Open Project From Target… from the menu File->Open. After selecting this menu item, the project is downloaded from the target system, unpacked and subsequently opened in the TwinCAT version with which the project was last activated on the target system.

In older TwinCAT 3.1.4020 versions the TwinCAT version of the target is used to open the project.

Setting the TwinCAT default version

So as not to open the wrong version of the TwinCAT 3 development environment by mistake, you can set the entry TwinCAT Version default in the TwinCAT options TwinCAT -> XAE Environment -> General to the value that is to be used as standard.

Project setting: Pin Version

To set the version with which a project is to be opened, you can use the option Pin Version on the General tab of the TwinCAT project node. If this option is activated, the TwinCAT 3 version set in the project will be used automatically when double-clicking on the project file.