The tool chain depends on the TIA Portal and AX Code, which includes the Apax application on Windows clients.
The TIAX library workflow essentially consists of six steps:
- Create an AX library for a specific target and build it.
- Call AX2TIA to convert the library into library documents.
- Convert the library documents into a global library for the TIA Portal using the TIA library importer (generator).
- Instantiate the blocks in your TIA Portal project and call it from the code in TIA.
- Download the TIA project to your PLC and debug the ST code online if necessary.
- Modify the original code on the AX side, repeat the build and convert steps and re-instantiate the blocks in the TIA project.
The steps are described in more detail here.
You can also use the AX Web IDE in a cloud workspace to generate the handover library documents. Afterwards you must download all handover files to a Windows computer that has the TIA Portal installed and then start the TIA library importer manually on this computer to generate the TIA global library.
The following figure shows the workflows for importing SIMATIC AX libraries into the TIA Portal: