Any way to disable overlays in designer, makes placement impossible

[nminchin]

You can copy tag json and change the valueSource property of each opc tag from "opc" to "memory", and all other opc config is kept intact, but the tag will become a memory tag. Then when you want to convert it back, just reverse. Of course, you want to make sure you're only converting back true opc tags and not converting actual memory tags to opc..

I have a script to do it on this forum somewhere if you want me to dig it up? (Of course, it's use at your own risk, however i've been using it for a while with no issues. You can also always backup your tags just in case, which I would do anyway)

Reading PLC tags offline

If I don’t have a PLC but I have the project, most of our tags are within UDTs which are already developed, so these are fairly easy to create manually or using a tool that takes in a list of instance names and parameters and creates the udt instances for me. Without a PLC, in v8, you can convert tags between opc and memory without any information being removed (this wasn’t in the case in v7). I use this script, just copied into the script console, to convert tag json copied into the clipboard…