PLCEdit Features


About PLCEdit:

PLCEdit is a powerful notepad to edit your PLC code. According to the IEC61131-3 standard the available programming languages are IL (Instruction List) and ST (Structured Text). PLCEdit supports the following POU sources: program, function block, function and global variable lists.

PLCEdit is not an IDE. You will need a development environment from Moeller, Siemens, KW-Software or 3S to compile and transfer the source code.

Keyfeatures:
  • compatible to:
    • most CoDeSys v2.3 export files
    • Moeller SucoSoft v4 & v5 files
    • Step7 AWL and SCL sources
    • KW-Software IL and ST cources
  • support for IEC61131-3 languages
    Instruction List and Structured Text,
    KOP and FUP in text mode
  • Sessions (lists with opened files)
  • freeware & open source


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PLCEdit, for what?

If you are happy with your integrated PLC developement environment, you will not want this millionth text editor. Everything what PLCEdit can do is open some POU files, edit them slightly and store them back in a compatible format - it is not an IDE. PLCEdit is a easy to use notepad, which starts up simply, without any deamons or background Apps and it will not bend your windows registry.
This small App allows you to create POU files, to view or edit existing files and to print them. But PLCEdit can be more for you. The program includes a batch converter to prepare exisiting POUs for another PLC platform. And which IDE allows a good source code and version management? Maybe you have a folder based version management, which contains the function blocks as single files. PLCEdit can be used as a reader, which is able to save file paths into a session file. You can increase your version management with sessions of a POU's development line.




About History:

Reason for the development was a lack of freeware for PLC source code editing. The development has started in 2005 with a simple notepad, which could edit Moeller Sucosoft .poe files. As a next step a basic compatibility to Siemens Step7 and 3S's CoDeSys was implemented. During the last years PLCEdit got some great improvements, e.g. the batch converter.
Starting in the mid of 2007 the codebase of PLCEdit was rewritten by using the open source edition of Trolltech's application framework Qt4. As a result PLCEdit is the first cross-platform IEC61131-3 compilant POU editor which opens up the way for PLC engineering out of Windows®.