PLC Programming

Managing Projects...
Dialog box for project documentation
'Project' 'Export'
Only those areas in the dialog box are printed which are highlighted in blue.
If you want to select the entire project, then select the name of your project in the first line.
If, on the other hand, you only want to select a single object, then click on the corresponding object or
move the dotted rectangle onto the desired object with the arrow key. Objects which have a plus sign
in front of their symbols are organization objects which contain other objects. With a click on a plus
sign organization object is expanded, and with a click on the resulting minus sign it can be closed up
again. When you select an organization object, then all relevant objets are also selected. By pressing
the key you can select a group of objects, and by pressing the key you can select
several individual objects.
Once you have made your selection, then click on OK. The Print dialog box appears. You can
determine the layout of the pages to be printed with 'File' 'Printer setup'.
With CoDeSys projects can be exported or imported. That allows you to exchange programs between
different IEC programming systems.
There is a standardized exchange format for POUs in IL, ST, and SFC (the Common Elements format
of IEC 1131-3). For the POUs in LD and FBD and the other objects CoDeSys has its own filing format
since there is no text format for this in IEC 1131 3.
The selected objects are written to an ASCII file.
POUs, data types, visualizations, and the resources can be exported. In addition, entries in the library
manager, that is the linking information to the libraries, can be exported (not the libraries themselves!).
Important: Re-importing an exported FBD or LD POU results in an error if a comment in the graphical editor
contains a single quotation mark ('), as this will be interpreted as the beginning of a string !
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