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TE1000 XAE

TwinCAT 3 TE1000 XAE is the engineering environment for the TwinCAT 3 control software.

In this development environment, Beckhoff controllers can be programmed, diagnosed, and debugged. A controller is represented by a TwinCAT project.

Documentation in this section:

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User interface

TwinCAT 3 Engineering consists of various components. Here you will find information on the arrangement, function, and configuration of the individual components in the user interface.

 

TwinCAT project

A TwinCAT project includes all settings relevant for the commissioning and operation of a controller. The documentation explains the individual parts of a TwinCAT project in more detail.

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PLC

TwinCAT 3 PLC realizes one or more PLCs with the international standard IEC 61131-3, 3rd edition on one CPU. TwinCAT PLC provides you with versatile and convenient engineering functions for your development work.

 

You will find an overview of the Beckhoff PLC libraries here. These contain ready-made function blocks that you can easily reuse for PLC programming in TwinCAT.

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Safety

 

The safety editor integrated in TwinCAT 3 allows the creation of a safety application in a free graphical environment. 

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C/C++

Here, you will find information related to the implementation of TwinCAT 3 in C/C++ as well as programming references and a wide variety of C++ examples for working with modules and interfaces.

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MATLAB® and Simulink®

MATLAB® and Simulink® offer environments that make it easy to implement engineering tasks. The documentation also describes other TwinCAT 3 technologies and products in this context.

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I/O

Using TwinCAT 3 I/O, cyclic data can be collected by different fieldbuses in process images. Cyclic tasks drive the corresponding fieldbuses. Various fieldbuses can be operated with different cycle times on one CPU. Applications can access the process image directly. The fieldbuses and the process images are configured in TwinCAT 3 Engineering.