TIA Portal: UDT's (User Defined Types) - Part 1 

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As always, I appreciate your time to create these informative videos.

I was waiting for this UDT topic to come up, I even thought about sending you a message requesting it. THANKS!!!!

thanks for beautiful explanation ...waiting for next video...good luck and stay safe.

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Very very easy to understand. Thanks a lot

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Video molto bello ed esplicativo, grazie. Very nice and explanatory video, thanks.

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Herr Hegamurl, please can you make videos on loop for us to benefit. It will be really appreciated sir. Thanks in anticipation.

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Nichts zu danken :) Funny. I just found a use for UDTs today, and here I am. Mikael from Sweden...

Please share one part for udt, structure, global db and auto sequential program in combined.. So that one can do it by their own.. Hey i really thank you for your time and making this fabulous video.. Thanks.. Buddy

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Thank you

Sir please make a video on data logging.

Thank you for the outstanding videos, these are a great help in planning for an implementation. One aspect of the UDT that was not covered was retention memory. For example if you have a mixer, it can have a few parameters that are set and some parameters that are retention, I.e enabled, speed. In UDT I see the the whole struct can be set as retention memory. Is it possible only to set certain members as retention memory ?

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Hi Hegamurl, thank you for very very informative videos. Can you make a video indirect adressing, pointer data type and advance stl language. Thank you again.

Dear Hegamurl, please do some modbus videos! thanks for everything

Can we export the udt and import in another project

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Can UDT be used in place of Multi instance Data block? Seems they are similar in operation.

it's really an useful video for me. Could you please also make motion control video with servo motor? Thank a lot

Hallo Hegamurl I have a question for you. let me explen one situation first. If i have running program and i have to add new UDT and new DB in the program, then i must to compile the program and download in the PLC. When I download the changes will I stop execution of the Program or will I make problem into the Program execution? Thanks in advance. Aleksandar

Hello, is it possible to edit the UDT in text “window “but not the table “window”(standard in TIA)? Just like in the text window, you just input like : motor_ctrl_data_typ : STRUCT motorStart : BOOL; motorStop : BOOL; END_STRUCT; Current I use the notepad++ to edit UDT… it works…

Could you please make videos on sinamics-sinapos, sinaspeed,etc blocks?

UDT= similar to create an object with just attributes and no methods, this could have own modifiers "private, public, etc" and initialize in parts of the programs. What I like of it, it's that is not necessary to write the constructors, setters and getters for the object. Would it have any way to implement those methods and model its behaviour according an UML object?

Hello sir ,It gives this error when I am compiling in Simatic Manager v5.6 or 5.7 'no valid offline ascii type description found for called or addressed block udt 2' Why do I encounter such an error and what is the solution?

your videos are very fantastic! Thank you very much for that. Can you tell me how to migrate a project which is on VMware to TIA portal? thanks again?

Can you please do indirect addressing and pointers

I don't know, perhaps it will be said in next videos. Yet, the most valuable advantage of UDTs, it is oppotunity to be passed entirely to another memory area or to a block. For example to InOut of a certain block. Hope, it will be also explained, why it is used InOut in a block. Extremely difficult stuff...)))

Hello teacher 😊.. I use PID technology instruction but the output always is zero and the output of analog also zero i change every thing like you but it give me zero ... What am i doing ? ... Thanks 😊😘😍

Hello, Very nice one, have you ever thought to make a video (for example i am direct interested :p) how can we can send data from a PLC (S7-1200 or S7-1500) to a cloud ? Would be very nice because that's the right direction where we should take a look .. Thanks !

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It's like structure, what's the difference btw UDT and structure?

I don’t use system data type, only user data type. And then I spend day correcting my bits 😖

I asked a question to which I found the answer on your pages. You may not answer. Thank you for your lectures.

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