Quick start

The following chapter is intended to provide an introduction to using the TwinCAT 3 Realtime Monitor.

The starting point is a project running on a TwinCAT 3.1 runtime version 3.1.4024.0 or later.

1. Open the Realtime Monitor.

2. Create a new project by clicking on the New Project option in the Project menu of the TwinCAT 3 Realtime Monitor. The project name can be changed via the project properties.
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3. Use the Realtime Monitor toolbar to choose the target system you want to analyze.
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A prompt appears asking whether you want to load the configuration from the target system.

4. Confirm with Yes.

The active configuration of the target system has been loaded and the contexts are displayed hierarchically as a tree.

A dialog box appears asking whether the Realtime Monitor should take a short snapshot of the target system in order to automatically detect and create user contexts.
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5. Confirm with Yes.

6. In the tree, select the contexts/tasks that you want to have displayed in the Realtime Monitor so that they are marked with a tick. Quick start 4:

7. Select the project in the tree view and set the Detailed Logging option to "True" in the properties window. (See red marking in the image of the previous step or the description of Marker group element)

8. Click on the Start Log data Quick start 5:

button in the toolbar of the Realtime Monitor.

Recording of the real-time behavior begins.
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Stopping the recording:

To stop a recording in progress and save the data, proceed as follows:

A real-time monitor recording is running.

1. Click the Stop data collection button Quick start 7:

in the Realtime Monitor toolbar.

2. Select the menu entry Recordings > Save data as Recording.

The recording of the Realtime Monitor is now stopped and the data is stored as a recording in the project.