Modules

A Module is a data container for code or data. The file representation of a Module is a *.br file.

Data Objects

A data object is a data container in the form of a B&R module. It can be used by other software objects on the target system as a data table (e.g. for configuration) or as data memory. Automation Studio provides functions for handling data objects in the DataObj library.

Data objects can be used for e.g. a simple recipe system

There are some system data objects available:

• CNC data objects
• NC data objects
• Cams

ANSL and INA2000 provide some functionality to translate modules.

Examples

find the following examples on GitHub github.com/hilch/Pvi.py

modules1.py (ANSL)

this simple example creates a module on CPU by downloading a bytestream and checks if it exists

modules2.py (ANSL)

this simple example creates a module on CPU by downloading a bytestream and afterwards uploads it again

modules3.py

in this example we search for BR files (*.br) in a folder and read the type of content