Your first step is creating a project in the Siemens TIA Portal.
Go to the project view.
At first start you will notice there are no ConveyLinx Ai devices you can use.
In order to use ConveyLinx Ai in your projects you must install PROFINET GSDML Configuration File, provided by Industrial Software.
Go to Options -> Install general station description file (GSD) and point the folder with your file.
In the Status tab you can see if the file is installed or not.
Check the desired file and click the Install button.
Note that once you do that you cannot go back.
Close the message.
Now your hardware catalog will be updated (this is a quite long procedure).
Now in the hardware catalog you can see ConveyLinx Ai module with different configurations.
Before moving to the next step you must add PLC to the project.
In this example we use SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1511-1 PN with firmware version 1.1
Go to External source files -> Add new external file.
Open the UDT file provided by Industrial Software.
Right click on it -> Generate blocks from source.
In PLC data types you can see the added ConveyLinx Ai data types you can use.
For example these are sent from the module to the PLC.
You can now add ConveyLinx Ai to your project.
You can either double click or drag the desired device.
Assign it to the network of the PLC.
You can find the I/O addresses and Hardware identifiers of the I/O modules of the ConveyLinx.
Go to Properties of the virtual input module.
