Plugging Probes, Mapping Variables

A probe is a virtual measurement point that can be connected to a variable.

Three types of variables can be mapped:

1. Pipe Block variable
2. IEC "International Electrotechnical Commission" IEC is a not-for-profit, non-governmental international standards organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies 61131-3 variable, which is any other variable.
3. PLCOpen axis values.
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• Your application must be connected and running to plug a variable to the channel.

You can connect a probe to a variable in one of the following ways:

• from the Softscope, see Mapping a Variable to the Oscilloscope
• from the Dictionary, see Plugging a probe from the Dictionary
• from the Pipe Network, Plugging a probe from the Pipe Network