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Installation Guide
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Installation - TwinCAT
The TwinCAT software can be installed free-of-charge for a 7-day trial period. The trial can be
extended for an arbitrary number of times - always in 7-day steps - without re-installing the entire
software (only a displayed 5-digit code shall be copied in order to restart the trial license).
5.1
TwinCAT development envir runtime
The installation file for TwinCAT can be downloaded by the website
www.beckhoff.com
. Select
“Download” at the top of the page:
Select the
TE1xxx | Engineering
version:
NOTE
: T
ake care not to install the “Runtime” version: this installation version will not provide
the TwinCAT development environment, which is instead needed to test the EtherCAT
communication.
NOTE
: This Installation Guide refers to TwinCAT 3.1, which is compatible both with 32-bit and
with 64-bit Windows Operating Systems. For those who already installed TwinCAT 2 runtime on
their 32-bit PC, the installation of TwinCAT 3.1 will not be necessary. Please be sure in this
case to have installed the latest build of TwinCAT 2.11 R3. Do not install the TwinCAT 2.11 x64
Engineering version on a 64-bit PC, as this version contains only the development environment
for TwinCAT 2 and not the runtime (in case of Windows 64-bit, only TwinCAT 3.1 can be used).