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benhar-dev
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Joined: Aug 31, 2022
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RE: TwinCAT with Head First Design Patterns Ch.1 - Intro/Strategy Pattern.

This is great to see @ehixenbaugh! I'm really pleased you have found the information to be helpful. Also, if you are interested I have put together ...

2 years ago
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RE: First Steps in Beckhoff PLC TwinCAT

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

2 years ago
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RE: Passing a structure between PLCs via ADS using symbolic addressing

@duncan this is possible. The two function blocks below use symbols instead of index/offset. 👍 FB_ReadAdsSymByName FB_WriteAdsSymByName Sm...

2 years ago
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RE: TwinCAT Multiple I/O Links

@automatika, I'm not sure I follow fully, but you may be able to apply either Conditional pragmas or Variant Management

2 years ago
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RE: Extending HMI desktop to a monitor?

Hi @IOTea, is this the type of thing you are looking for?

2 years ago
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RE: Running Windows Commands in TwinCAT

Related : Running Ping and receiving a reply using NT_StartProcess Related : Getting free drive space using NT_StartProcess

2 years ago
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RE: Measuring the scan cycle of PLC

@twincontrols are you looking to read the Task Cycle time, for example, from PlcTaskSystemInfo.CycleTime or are you looking to see how long your task ...

2 years ago
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RE: library for folder and file management, free size, rename, oldest file...

Hi @runtimevictor, this project comes with a word of warning. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should 🙂 NT_StartProcess is one of ...

2 years ago
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RE: Best Books/Materials for Learning Object Oriented Programming?

@ehixenbaugh you are welcome. Greetings from Australia too! 😎

2 years ago
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RE: Best Books/Materials for Learning Object Oriented Programming?

Hi @ehixenbaugh, Personally, I found "Head first design patterns" coupled with the amazing video series by Christopher Okhravi to be a game changer....

2 years ago
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RE: Using any structure as an input to a function block

@twincontrols, I also like using ANY. Method3 : Using ANY FB_XmlWriter: FUNCTION_BLOCK FB_XmlWriter VAR_INPUT tData : ANY; END_VAR VAR_OUT...

2 years ago
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RE: How to create a license in TwinCAT for a custom library?

@iotea yes this is possible. You'll need to apply for a free OEM license from Beckhoff. The information you are looking for can be found by googling...

2 years ago
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RE: Counting the number of items in a STRUCT in TwinCAT 3 using Python

Hi @twinControls, this is an example of the same in Structured Text.

2 years ago
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RE: How to count the number of items in a struct in TwinCAT?

@iotea yep this is possible to do. Source code of this can be found here...

2 years ago
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