Beckhoff Bus Coupler
The Beckhoff Bus Terminal system is an open Fieldbus-neutral periphery concept comprising electronic terminal blocks. The head of an electronic terminal block is the Bus Coupler with the interface to the Fieldbus. The following Field busses are currently supported via Beckhoff Bus Couplers under TwinCAT:
- Beckhoff Lightbus
- Profibus DP
- Interbus
- CANopen
- DeviceNet
- SERCOS Interface
- Ethernet TCP/IP Interface
- Real-Time Ethernet Interface
- USB Interface
- Miscellaneous
Context menu
Append Terminal ... <Insert>
Adds a Bus Terminal under the Bus Coupler. You will then see the dialogue displayed under Terminal Selection Diagram.
Insert Box Before...
Adds another box above the marked box.
Delete Box... <Del>
Deletes the marked box and its sub-elements from the I/O configuration.
Import Box Before...
Adds another box above the marked box. The description of the new box and its sub-elements are read from a file with the suffix "*.tce". This file is created with the following menu option.
Export Box...
Exports the information from the selected box and the information about its sub-elements into a file with the suffix "*.ioe".