Movement Area

Movement Area 1:

Coordinate system instead of MovementArea

The MovementArea will be replaced by the coordinate system in the long term. Beckhoff recommends not creating new MovementAreas and using coordinate systems instead. Further information can be found in chapter Coordinate system.

Movement Area 2:
Expand Solution Explorer > System > TcCOM Objects
Right-click on Object (XPlanarProcessingUnit) to open the context menu
Click Add New Item in the context menu
Movement Area 3:

The Insert TcCOM Object dialog box opens.

Click on the + button of the XPlanar Modules
Click on the + button of the Processing Unit Childs to see the available TcCOM objects
Select XPlanarMovementArea [Module]
Enter the number of movement areas required
Double-click on the selection or confirm with OK

One or more movement areas are added to the Processing Unit.