In MKVI panels the HMI is having the toolbox which is actually an .m6b file, my question is which is the similar file in MKVIe?

what are the main files in the HMI which holds the MKVIe toolboxST and which contains all the sequences and function blocks like the .m6b file in MKVI.

A reply from any expert in the control.com would be highly appreciated.

Thomas

 

In ToolboxST, the engineering tool for Mark VIe, there isn't a single binary file equivalent to M6B files. It is more of a folder structure containing a lot of XML files.

That isn't to say you can edit the XML files directly in a text editor, they are actually protected against tampering (because the files are basically a relational database, it is very risky to edit them by hand, and the ToolboxST team got tired of fixing "bugs" related to users editing the files and subtly corrupting them).

The closest equivalent to an M6B file would be doing an Archive from the ToolboxST system window's File menu, which basically just zips up the devices you select, along with the system configuration.

The main system configuration file, and the thing you actually Open in the tool, is a "TCW" file--and is really just an XML file. In the directory with the TCW, there is a separate sub-folder for each device, named the same as the device, containing all of the XML files for the device, in particular the device.xml file and an XML file for Distributed IO and each Program.

Hope that helps.