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Oleksandr Husiev

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Jan 31, 2023 7:41 am

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Hello everyone!

I am very glad to visit this TwinCAT forum.

I am totally new in TwinCAT and Beckhoff PLCs but I have big experience with other classical PLC platforms like Siemens, Allen Bradley and Schneider Electric. My upcoming project will be on Beckhoff PLC: process control + sending data to the higher level system (via OPC UA and/or MQTT protocols).

Could you please advise me where to find some first steps or quick start information for total newbies in Beckhoff and TwinCAT: how to configure hardware PLC and IO on EtherCAT in TwinCAT, how to connect to PLC, download program and changes etc.?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards, Oleksandr.

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runtimevictor

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Jan 31, 2023 9:02 am

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Oleksandr Husiev

@oleksandr-husiev ,

https://infosys.beckhoff.com/content/1033/tf6100_tc3_opcua/index.html?id=8440997285323845337

https://infosys.beckhoff.com/content/1033/tf6701_tc3_iot_communication_mqtt/index.html?id=4400404359336298224

https://github.com/runtimevic
https://github.com/TcMotion
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEfi_hUmmSjFpfdJ6yw3B9yj7dWHYkHmQ
https://github.com/VisualPLC

Oleksandr Husiev

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Jan 31, 2023 1:00 pm

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runtimevictor

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Hi!

Thank you very much for the link!

Cheers, Oleksandr.

twinControls

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Jan 31, 2023 9:14 am

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Oleksandr Husiev

@oleksandr-husiev

Hi Oleksandr, Welcome to our community!

The link below should help you with the first steps! If you face any issue, please feel free to post your questions under How-to & Troubleshooting subforum!

Your first TwinCAT 3 PLC project

In case you want to say thank you !)
We'd be very grateful if you could share this community with your colleagues and friends. You can also buy us a coffee to keep us fueled 😊 This is the best way to say thank you to this project and support your community.
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Oleksandr Husiev

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Jan 31, 2023 9:40 am

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Hi twincontrols!

Thank you very much for quick reply and useful link!

Will dig into it.

Best regards, Oleksandr.

benhar-dev

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Jan 31, 2023 6:46 pm

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Oleksandr Husiev

@oleksandr-husiev a great resource for getting started can be found here PLC programming using TwinCAT 3

My blog: codingbytes
My code: https://github.com/benhar-dev

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