TwinCAT ECAD Import Project (Teip)

The following dialog will be shown if File/New/Project or Project/Properties is clicked. It decides which ECAD import/export Files and TwinCAT Project files are included in the project.

Teip dialog

The inputs are grouped in 4 Categories:

1) General

Name shows the name of the Teip.

Author is an option.

2) TwinCAT

System Manager Project File for Import/Export is obligatory for a Teip. The file will be generated/updated via importing an ECAD file. Or an ECAD exporting file will be generated/updated via exporting the TwinCAT files.

PLC Control Project File for Import/Export is obligatory for a Teip. The file will be generated/updated via importing an ECAD file. Or an ECAD exporting file will be generated/updated via exporting the TwinCAT files.

3) Import

Import action option decides if the TwinCAT Projects will be rebuild or refreshed.

if Load available PLC projectsis true, the PLC project will not be generated, but only be loaded for mapping variables.

ifTry to validate IoDataType with TwinCATis true, the given DataType in ECAD xml file will be validated with System Manager IO Variable data types.

ECAD File for Import to TwinCAT is obligatory for a Teip. This file is available from the ECAD Construction Drawings Program, which exports such files following the schema "ECAD2TWINCAT.xsd".

--- ECAD Device File for Import to TwinCAT (Option) is a separate ECAD file, which only contains the "Devices" Information.

Naming Rules File for Import to TwinCATis an option, if there are any rules for replacing the special characters reading from the ECAD file, e.g. "ue" replacing "ü".

4) Export

ECAD File for Export from TwinCAT has to be decided, if TwinCAT System Manager and/or PLC Control Project files are existing and you want to export an ECAD file via TwinCAT ECAD Import Tool.

Export exact type indicates if an exact Product-Revision type for EtherCAT devices will be obtained or not.

Ingnore Index and SubIndex in IoName and IoGroup of Variables should always be False, the exact variable information will be exported.