Create a SIMATIC AX library - Manual - AX2TIA - This package contains the documentation for ax2tia - Converting SIMATIC AX libraries to TIA Portal libraries,

1. Open a shell and navigate to the folder on your local hard disk in which the library is to be stored.
2. Login to apax.
   The general operation of apax and details of the login command are described here.

3. Create a new library with apax based on the tiax-lib template, install dependencies, and open the library created using AX Code:

   apax create tiax-lib my-sample-tia-library
   cd my-sample-tia-library
   apax install
   axcode .
   

   The prepared TIAX Lib template is shown at the end of the chapter.

4. If you installed the TIA Portal in a folder other than the default folder, edit apax.yml and set the TIA_INSTALL_PATH variable to your local installation of the TIA Portal.

5. Program the library.

   Place some sample code in the src folder, for example an Abs function:

   

   NAMESPACE Siemens.Tiax
   
      FUNCTION Abs : LREAL
         VAR_INPUT
            value : LREAL;
         END_VAR
   
         IF value < 0.0 THEN
            Abs := value * -1.0;
         ELSE
            Abs := value;
         END_IF;
      END_FUNCTION
   
   END_NAMESPACE
   

6. Compile the code and build the library:

   apax build
   

7. Convert the library. The results are placed in the folder ./bin/handover-folder:

   apax export-tia-handover-documents
   

To generate handover library documents for SINUMERIK ONE, update the export-tia-handover-documents script as outlined below:

scripts:
   export-tia-handover-documents: ax2tia -i ./bin/sinu/*.lib -o ./bin/handover-folder -t sinu

NOTICE

TIA Portal Library Importer performs an integrity check on the folder containing the handover library documents. If any of the handover library documents are modified, deleted or if new files are added to the folder, import of TIA Portal library fails.