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Hopefully only your cycle time is „falling“, not the Christmas tree. Always record and save a measurement with the Cycle Time Assist app during/after final acceptance. This will help you and the operator to identify deviations due to faster or slower movements or communication times later. Analysing and comparing can also be done in the office with Cycle Time Diagnosis. ... View more

Contacting our helpdesk is most effective when using the email template out of Control plus Studio: Alternatively use this forum to get in contact with the whole Control plus community. ... View more

Since TwinCAT 3.1.4022 SFC actions can be "integrated" into a SFC step. That means the action is renamed automatically according to the step name and the whole action content is copied when copying a step. This is a huge improvement when using numbered step names: You must set the option "duplicate on copy" for each step. To apply this setting for new steps set the general TwinCAT options like in the screenshot: Some remarks: "Integrated" actions automatically get the prefix "_a", e.g. _aN100_active. This is no problem for Control plus Studio V5, OES V4 or CodeChecker. Since Control plus Studio V5.0 the chain templates use the parameter "duplicate on copy". In TwinCAT 3.1.4022 renaming does not work automatically. Uncheck and check the checkbox "duplicate on copy". Since TwinCAT 3.1.4024 everything works automatically. As this is a CODESYS feature ctrlX also supports this option. ... View more

When you double click on Peripherals and select the IO tab you can see all in-/outputs within a peripheral tree. Here you can move in-/outputs via drag and drop without losing object parameters. Copying or cutting and pasting is also possible for several in-/outputs by multiple selection. ... View more