SITRAIN STEP 7 Basic

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Learning targets
The participant should ... ... ... become familiar with the structure of SIMATIC STEP 7 Basic become familiar with the project structure become familiar with the task cards

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understand the information system

be able to create a project with the TIA Portal and manage it be able to set up the user interface language be able to read out the properties, messages and events

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Views in STEP7 Basic V10.5:

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Portal view

Selection panel for the selected action Portals for different tasks Actions for the selected portal

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Project view

Working area

Task cards

Project window Details window

Inspector window

Switching to the portal view

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Project window
Open/close project navigation Toolbar Project New device PLC/HMI device

Languages & resources Online access

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Inspector window

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Task cards

Opening / closing task cards

Task cards are available in accordance with the object selected or being edited.
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Projects: Select language and storage location

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Window sections in the working area

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Splitting the editor area

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Online access to the CPU

Connecting online Disconnect online connection

Display available nodes

Start CPU

Stop CPU
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Save project

Incomplete network

In every editor
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Help functions:

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Symbols of the help topics

Symbol

Information

Explanation

Handling instructions Example

Describes the procedure for performing a particular task. Contains a concrete application example to explain a particular task.

Factual information

Contains important background information that is necessary for performing a task.

Reference

This contains reference information.

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Project library

Editing area

It is opened, saved and closed together with the current project.

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Library structure

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Symbols
Close library Save library Open library

New folder

Open/close element display

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