Tutorials are VERY basic

Development Tools PLC IDE
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I started to play around with the PLC IDE. The basic concepts are clear. Now i'm stuck and overwhelmed by the thousends of clicks and menus. I have the feeling i'm not alone. At a loss with a very cool product like the Portenta Machine Control delivered with that monster piece of software made by a third party without proper examples, tutorials and even a proper documentaion of the Arduino sketch integration.

Example: Arduino made some Tutorials, like:

At the very end:
Next Steps

Now that you have completed the setup of the Portenta Machine Control and its CAN bus communication with the Arduino PLC IDE, you can continue with:
Plug a CAN sensor to your device and get its data.
Expand your CAN bus network with more nodes sending and receiving messages from each one of them.

OK, BUT HOW??

Isn't that what this tutorial should be about?

  • How can i integrate this into the Arduino sktech? How to debug? Even how to display?

Conclusion: Arduino, please help users to do simple, working examples from start to run like you did with the IDE and the UNO ever since. This was and should remain the original genuine spirit of Arduino!

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Yea dude I'm equally stumped with Modbus RTU.
Idk if this will help, but it turns out that PLC IDE is a rebadge of "LogicLab."
See if you can find anything on these two wiki pages. It wasn't enough to help me sadly.
https://www.axelsw.it/pwiki/index.php/LLExec_CANopen_Master
https://www.axelsw.it/pwiki/index.php/Configuration:_CANopen

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Thxs a bunch, this helps for the next steps.

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I have recently ie this week found the PLC IDE and managed to install the IDE, but also the lack of introduction, tutorials a.s.o.
Is there any new out there apart from mentioned here by jwballison?

I could really use a tutorial and information on how to run the project in simulation mode WITHOUT a portenta connected.

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DroneBotWorkShop.com has a section on CANbus (written for the Uno R4)