Formats

The TwinCAT Scope has been on the market since 2008 and now supports a series of its own file formats due to new developments. This page provides an overview of them. All formats can always be used with the latest Scope version.

Configuration:

Scope version

File format

All in TwinCAT Scope2 (TwinCAT 2)

.sv2

From TwinCAT 3 Scope

.tcscope

Since TwinCAT 3 Scope version 3.3.3140.0

.tcscopex

The configuration files can always be converted into the more up-to-date formats. i.e. .sv2 >> .tcscope, .tcscope >> .tcscopex and also .sv2 >> .tcscopex.

Data:

The data are saved in .svd files in TwinCAT Scope 2 and also in TwinCAT 3 Scope up to version 3.3.3140.0. From version 3.3.3140.0 the files are saved in the new .svdx format. Old .svd files can also be converted into .svdx again.

From version 3.3.3140.0 a .tcscopex file is saved for the configuration. The data are written to a .svdx file.