Simulate an instance of UDT without PLC connection

[jlandwerlen]

If I don't have a PLC and can't use a module as Phil suggested, I use Nicks script to convert to memory. He shared his script, see below.

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…