Open a Project

The following steps describe opening an existing project in FactoryTalk Twin Studio using the Emulate 3D application as an example.

Select the upper left menu and select View Entitlements to verify that you have a Universal Credit Entitlement available in your organization.

Select FactoryTalk Hub Home to return to the main page.

Select the Twin Studio tile.

Select the Emulate 3D tile to start the wizard.

Choose a small, medium, or large tier for the size of your simulation project and select Next. It can take up to 3.5 minutes for the service to launch.

Select your region. For better latency choose the recommended region and select Launch. The explorer screen appears.

Browse to and double-click the file you wish to open in your home folder if your file is already there. The application, in this case Emulate 3D launches with your project open.

Or, to upload a file from FactoryTalk Vault, select the menu button on the bottom left of the screen. Select either Clone an existing project from FT Vault or Upload from local machine.

Clone an existing project from FT Vault allows you to work on a file without changing the original. Cloned files are uploaded to your default folder.

Upload from local machine allows you to upload a file to work on. You can either browse to a file or drag and drop a file to the indicated area. Uploaded files are uploaded to your upload folder. This choice allows you to modify an existing file.

Select Save on the file menu to name and save your new project to your solutions folder.

When finished working on your project select the menu button on the lower left of the screen to Push the new file to Vault.

Getting Started

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