End of installation
New Program icons
After the installation the Windows NT/2000 Startup menu will contain a new folder containing five program symbols and two further program folders.
StartUp
TwinCAT automatically starts all programs in the Startup folder if activated via the Auto-Boot Function. This is to ensure that user programs that use process values from TwinCAT are started after TwinCAT.
TwinCAT System-Manager
With the help of this program, assign physical I/O adresses (Fieldbus) to the logical process variables (PLC program). This assignment is called mapping. The realtime properties are defined here.
TwinCAT PLC Control
This is the software development kit for IEC61131-3. The PLCPrograms are written and tested here.
TwinCAT System Control
Apart from the visible programs, there are also hidden tasks and drivers that run in the background. The TwinCAT System Control administrates these programs.
TwinCAT Scope View
With the help of the TwinCAT Scope View process values can be displayed graphical in real time. The dynamic Axis values can be thoroughly examined.
TwinCAT in Windows NT/2000
When the System is started the TwinCAT Real time server icon is displayed on the right of the Taskbar.
The color indicates the general operating state of the system. It can have one of the states 'started' (green), 'starting' (yellow)' and 'stopped' (red). If you click the icon, a pop up menu opens in which you can define further system settings. Within the scope of these instructions, you can accept the default setting. The TwinCAT server can be stopped and started in this menu.
Beckhoff Information System
The Beckhoff Information System is a constantly growing reference source for TwinCAT products. It contains technical information, manuals, example code, the TwinCAT Knowledge Base and much more. The hierarchical arrangement of the documents makes it easy to find the required information.
Full version:
If you installed TwinCAT of the Beckhoff product CD, now the entire Beckhoff Information System is installed on your computer.
Base Version
If you loaded yourselves the installation from TwinCAT from the Internet, only a basic version of the Beckhoff Information System on your computer is installed.
In order to receive a complete version (size 200 MB), you have several possibilities:
You will find it
- on the Beckhoff Product CDs
- on our FTP-Server
- and on our Web-Server
You can infer the statements for the installation also from the start page, which you can open with the start menu, as represented above.
