Simatic step 7 Professional 2006 sr5 Engineering Software for simatic s7 / M7 / C7 Notes on Installation and Usage

These notes should be considered more up-to-date than the information in other documents. Read the notes carefully, because they contain information on installing and using STEP 7 Professional.

Also read the Special Notes of the STEP 7 Professional parts of products.

Note when printing the file that the left and right margins are set to a width of 25 millimeters for A4 portrait size.

1. Contents

2. Contents of the Consignment

The following items are included in this package:

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  DVD STEP 7 Professional
  
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  1 STEP 7 Professional Floating License Stick
  
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  1 Software Product Certificate
  

Order number: 6ES7810-5CC10-0YA6

The following items are included in this package:

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  DVD STEP 7 Professional
  
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  1 STEP 7 Professional Rental License Stick
  
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  1 Software Product Certificate
  

Order number: 6ES7810-5CC10-0YE5

The following items are included in this package:

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  DVD STEP 7 Professional
  
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  1 License Key Disk with STEP 7 Professional upgrade license
  
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  1 Software Product Certificate
  
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  1 Product Information
  

Order number: 6ES7810-5CC10-0YC5

The following items are included in this package:

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  DVD STEP 7 Professional
  
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  1 License Key Disk with STEP 7 Professional PowerPack license Stick
  
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  1 Software Product Certificate
  
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  1 Product Information
  

Order number: 6ES7810-5CC10-0YA7

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  DVD STEP 7 Professional
  

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  Folder CD_1:
  

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  STEP 7 V5.4 incl. SP4
  
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  S7-PLCSIM V5.4 SP2
  
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  Automation License Manager V4.0
  

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  Folder CD_2:
  

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  S7-GRAPH V5.3 incl. SP6
  
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  S7-SCL V5.3 incl. SP5
  
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  SIMATIC iMap STEP 7 Addon
  
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  Shareware version of Acrobat Reader in five languages, with which you can view and print the supplied manuals
  
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  file "STEP 7 - What's New.rtf"
  
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  file "S7-GRAPH - What's New.rtf"
  
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  file "S7-SCL - What's New.rtf"
  
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  Electronic manuals for STEP 7 V5.4
  
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  Electronic manuals for S7-GRAPH V5.3
  
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  Electronic manuals for S7-SCL V5.3
  
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  Electronic manuals for S7-PLCSIM V5.4
  
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  Command Interface description
  
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  Description of the Central Installation Procedure
  

3. Hardware Requirements

Operating System	Minimum Requirements for:
	Processor	RAM	Graphics
MS Windows 2000 Professional	600MHz	512 MB *)	XGA 1024x768 16 Bit color depth
MS Windows XP Professional	600MHz	512 MB *)	XGA 1024x768 16 Bit color depth
MS Windows Server 2003	2.4 GHz	1 GB	XGA 1024x768 16 Bit color depth
MS Windows Vista Business	1 GHz	1GB **)	XGA 1024x768 16 Bit color depth
MS Windows Vista Ultimate	1 GHz	1GB **)	XGA 1024x768 16 Bit color depth
*) A minimum RAM of 1 GB is recommended **) A minimum RAM of 2 GB is recommended

In addition, you will need an external prommer for SIMATIC memory cards / MMC if you are using a PC and want to save your user programs to EPROMs and a SIMATIC NET interface if you want to use online functions to the PLC system with your personal computer.

Further notes on MS Windows Vista:

The "Aero Glass Style“ requires a high-performance graphics card. Requirements:

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  Can run with DirectX9
  
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  128 MB separate graphics memory
  
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  The performance of the graphics system architecture can have a considerable influence on the STEP 7 Professional performance.
  

4. Software Requirements

   1. Operating Environment

STEP 7 Professional is a 32-bit application that is released for the following operating systems:

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  MS Windows XP Professional SP3
  
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  MS Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard Edition with or without R2 as workstation computer
  
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  MS Windows Vista 32 Bit Ultimate and Business with / without SP1
  

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  MS Windows 2000 SP4
  
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  MS Windows XP Professional with SP1
  
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  MS Windows 2003, SP1, SP1 R2
  

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  MS Windows XP Home
  
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  MS Windows Vista Home Basic, Premium
  

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  MS Windows 3.1
  
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  MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11
  
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  MS Windows 95
  
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  MS Windows 98
  
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  MS Windows Millennium
  
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  MS Windows NT 4.0
  
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  MS Windows XP Professional (without SP)
  
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  MS Windows Vista 64 Bit versions
  
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  MS Windows 2000, SP1, SP2, SP3
  

An MS Windows XP operating system update to MS Windows Vista is not allowed for a previously installed STEP 7 Professional.

All operating systems must be using MS Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher).

Please note the following regarding the user rights as of STEP 7 Professional Edition 2004 SR2:

To be able to work with STEP 7 Professional in MS Windows, you must have logged on at least as the user (not as a guest). You must possess administrator's rights for installing the STEP 7 software and also for setting up modules using the "Setting the PG/PC Interface" application. You need to possess administrator's rights to use S7 GRAPH. When using optional packages please observe the rights required by the respective optional packages.

If projects are saved on NTFS drives, the users must be granted full access here. This also applies to the folders with the HSP updates (default: C:/HWUPDATES). Access within the default project directory S7PROJ is automatically granted to all users.

STEP 7 Professional achieves a slightly lower performance when operating on a MS Windows NT file system (NTFS) as opposed to a FAT file.

Shifting to hibernation mode is generally allowed by STEP 7. However, hibernation must not be triggered if online connections are open or projects are being accessed by STEP 7 applications via a network. In such case, online connections could be unintentionally terminated, and open projects on networks may experience data loss. For these reasons, the energy options for the operating system in the Windows Control Panel should be set so that hibernation is not automatically triggered (by timer). Hibernation should not be triggered manually by the user in the cases mentioned above.

2. Memory Requirements

MS Windows also requires additional free space on the hard disk (typically C:) for its swap file, depending on the memory configuration.

You should keep at least double the amount of main memory free on your hard disk (example: with a main memory of 1024 MB you will need 2048 MB hard disk space for the page file following the installation of STEP 7).

Depending on the size of the project, it may be necessary to have a larger swap file, for example, when copying an entire project (twice the size of the project on the hard drive in addition). If the free memory area for the swap file is too small, errors may occur (the program could possibly crash). Additional Windows applications which run parallel to STEP 7 Professional (such as Microsoft Word) also require additional hard disk space for the swap file.

In order to ensure that the required memory for the swap file is really available, the minimum size for the swap file should be set to the above value. This can be set in Windows in the taskbar under Start > Settings > Control Panel.

You must make certain that you have enough free memory on the drive where the project data are located. If there is not enough memory on the drive, the project data may be destroyed during an operation (for example, when compiling an STL source file into blocks). We also recommend that you do not store the project data on the same drive as the Windows swap file.

3. Compatibility with Other Software Products

4. Online Documentation

5. Installation

   1. Installation of STEP 7 Professional

Insert the STEP 7 Professional DVD in the drive. STEP 7 Professional is installed via a user-led Setup, which you start with the MS Windows Explorer by double-clicking the SETUP.EXE program of the STEP 7 Professional DVD.

Before you can upgrade STEP 7 Professional Edition 01/2000 to STEP 7 Professional 2006 SR5, you have to transfer your old authorization to the corresponding authorization diskette using AuthorsW and change to the currently approved operating systems.

You can install STEP 7 Professional 2006 SR5 over an existing MS Windows 2000 SP3 installation of STEP 7 Professional Edition 08/2000 SP1, 08/2001 or 12/2002.

If you have MS Windows XP SP1 installed, you can install over STEP 7 Professional Edition 12/2002.

Before you can upgrade STEP 7 V3/V4/V5.0/V5.1 to STEP 7 Professional 2006 SR5, you will need to transfer your old authorization to the corresponding authorization diskette using AuthorsW and change to the currently approved operating systems.

You can upgrade an existing installation of STEP 7 V5.2, V5.3, V5.4 and V5.4 SP4 to STEP 7 Professional 2006 SR5. You do not have to uninstall these STEP 7 versions and optional packages. However, you must uninstall older versions and their optional packages beforehand.

In General the Following Applies:

In order to obtain the optimum display of the information during the Setup, you should set the color scheme in the control panel of your programming device/personal computer to at least 65536 colors.

Before starting the Setup program, close all applications (such as Microsoft Word, etc.) and the "Control Panel" window, since you will need to restart Windows following the installation of STEP 7 Professional so that all system variables can be entered completely.

Insert the STEP 7 Professional DVD in the drive. In order to start installing STEP 7 Professional, double-click the SETUP.EXE program on the STEP 7 Professional DVD from the Windows Explorer. The Setup program will guide you through the installation.

In the component selection box, select the Acrobat Reader, STEP 7, Automation License Manager, and any other components (S7-SCL, S7-GRAPH, S7-PLCSIM) that you wish to install.

These components will then be installed and entries will be made in Microsoft Windows files.

The following notes are intended to help you make the correct user entries required during the Setup program:

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  The drive on which you install your STEP 7 Professional system can be selected freely. On some PCs/programming devices, you will not be able to select the drive via the selection list. In this case, simply enter the drive with its path in the appropriate input box (for example, "e:\Step7"). Note that all STEP 7 optional packages must also be installed on this drive, so there must be sufficient space available. Avoid installing STEP 7 Professional on a SUBST drive.
  
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  Before you use STEP 7 Professional, Windows must be restarted. Only then do all of the Microsoft Windows entries become active. If you do not restart Windows, STEP 7 Professional cannot run properly and data may be lost. If the installation procedure is aborted, you will also need to restart Windows.
  
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  Refer to the tables in the S7KOMP_B.PDF file (the directory "Step7" following installation) for information on which versions of the optional packages can run with STEP 7 Professional under Windows. Contact your Siemens representative for more up-to-date information or go to our website at:
  http://www.ad.siemens.de/simatic-cs
  

2. License Key of STEP 7 Professional

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  While you are installing STEP 7 Professional, the Setup program displays a message, if there is no suitable license key installed on your computer. You can then decide whether you want the license key to be installed by the Setup program or whether you want to install the license key manually at a later time using the Automation License Manager.
  
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  If the license key cannot be installed during setup, continue the Setup program without installing the license key. Then boot the computer and install the license key using the taskbar in Start > Simatic > License Management > Automation License Manager.
  

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  The license key diskette or the license stick must not be read-only. Because the license key diskette is to be used without write protection, there is a danger that a virus could be transferred from the hard disk to the diskette or memory stick. You should therefore run a virus check on your PC or programming device every time you install or remove a license key.
  
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  If you use an optimizing program which enables you to move fixed blocks of memory, only use this option once you have moved the license key from the hard disk back to the license key diskette or the license stick.
  
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  With the License Key a specially marked cluster is shown on the target drive. Some check programs display this cluster as "defective". Do not try to restore it.
  
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  Do not forget to transfer the license key to the license key diskette or the license stick before formatting, compressing, or restoring your hard disk or before installing a new operating system.
  
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  If a backup copy of your hard disk contains copies of license keys, there is a danger that these copies may overwrite the valid installed license keys when you restore your backup data to the hard disk, thereby destroying the valid license keys. To prevent a valid license key from being overwritten by a backup copy, you must remove all license keys before you make a backup copy or exclude the license keys from the backup.
  

If no valid license key is installed for STEP 7 Professional, the Trial License Keys of the individual products which are always supplied with STEP 7 Professional can be installed. However, these License Keys are only valid for 14 days.

3. Uninstalling STEP 7 Professional

6. Additional Notes

7. Notes on Operating the Software

   1. Special Characteristics of the MS Windows Vista Operating System

This means that access to protected areas of the file system, such as the directories "Programs" and "Windows", is virtualized , Your data will be forwarded by the operating system in such a case to non-protected areas. .

Note that the software under MS Windows is no longer available at "Start menu> SIMATIC", but under "Start menu > Programs > Automation > SIMATIC" This change is caused by the current architecture of MS Window Vista. Any information listed in the documentation and online help has to be interpreted accordingly.

Setting the access rights in the operating system

Important changes have been made to the MS Windows Vista safety concept in STEP 7 V5.4 SP4. This concept is used in case of a new installation (STEP 7 has never been installed on this computer. In this case, most settings, such as the STEP 7 language and mnemonic method are user-defined. This means users can make settings using a PC and their login information. An exception is the setting of the configuration language for the PG/PC interface.

A user group ”Siemens TIA Engineer” will be created under MS Windows Vista. The installer will automatically be added to this user group. Users from this user group have additional rights, such as configuration of the PG/PC interface and installation of the hardware support packages as well as for global setting of the STEP 7 language and mnemonic for all users of the “Siemens TIA Engineer” group. This language setting does also apply for the configuration of the PG/PC interface.

For manual IP configuration of the PGs (for PROFINET without DHCP), the user must also be added to the preinstalled user group “Network configuration operators.”

The administrator has to assign these user rights.

Note: If STEP 7 V5.4 SP4 is installed on top of an existing version of STEP 7, the settings will be specific for a particular PC. It is possible that other software packages may alter the software concept so that these settings may become PC-specific at a later date.

User account control

User account control (UAC) must be active for operation of STEP 7 under MS Windows Vista. Operation without UAC is only possible with elevated access rights (for example, administrator.

For operation in a domain, you can create a domain global user group that will be mapped to the local user groups "Siemens TIA Engineer" and "Network configuration operators".

The following prerequisites will have to be met:

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  The domain administrator has created a domain global user group.
  
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  The domain administrator has added users to the domain global user group whose login will be used for access to STEP 7.
  

You need at least "Siemens TIA-Engineer" rights to reconfigure the PG/PC interface.

These rights are also required for the following example:

A project can include an implicit configuration of the PG/PC interface (PG/PC).

If the PG/PC interface in such a project was implicitly reconfigured by a user with "Siemens TIA-Engineer" rights, then operators with user rights will not be able to undo this configuration. This means you will not be able to work online again until an operator with Siemens TIA-Engineer" rights has reconfigured the PG/PC interface. Otherwise operators will see the following alarm: "Insufficient user rights for operation of STEP 7."

Note Do not use the hibernate / standby function under MS Windows Vista.

2. Notes for Operation of WinCC 7.0 under Microsoft Windows Vista

8. Terms of License and Disclaimer of Liability for Open Source Software