Overview

The TE1000 XAE (eXtended Automation Engineering) is the TwinCAT 3 development environment. Beckhoff controllers can be programmed, diagnosed and debugged with this software. A controller is thereby mapped by a TwinCAT project. Several TwinCAT projects can be combined in one Solution.

A TwinCAT project includes all settings relevant for commissioning and operating a controller, the sub-projects for creating and instantiating application programs (PLC and C++), and the description and parameterization of the I/Os in order to interact with the process to be controlled. The following documentation explains the individual parts of a TwinCAT project in more detail.