Archiving options

The TwinCAT development environment offers three different archiving file types for storing a TwinCAT project, e.g. for archiving purposes or for passing it on to colleagues: tnzip, tszip and tpzip.

The type of archive file you should use depends on which projects you want to store in the archive folder.

Archiving file type

Focus

Contents

Commands

tnzip

Solution

The *.tnzip archive folder contains all TwinCAT project types included in the solution.

These can be TwinCAT, TwinCAT HMI, Scope or Connectivity projects.

Build

Open

tszip

TwinCAT project

The *.tszip archive folder contains the TwinCAT project to be archived.

Build

Open

tpzip

PLC project

The *.tpzip archive folder contains the PLC project to be archived.

Build

Open