STEP 7 - is a basic software package, which includes in its membership the tools needed for programming and operation control systems, based on programmable controllers SIMATIC S7/C7, as well as computer control systems SIMATIC WinAC.
Year: 2010
Version: v5.5
Developer: SIEMENS A & D
Platform: x86 32-bit only
Compatible with only a 32-bit OS:
Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003,
Windows 7 (for the home version edit Setup.ini)
Set on / Install to Windows XP / Vista Home Edition
RAM RAM of 2 GB recommended
Size: 700.93 Mb
The package includes:
* STEP 7 V5.5;
* ALM v5.0 SP1.
A distinctive feature of the package STEP 7 is to develop complex automation projects based on the use of multiple programmable controllers, industrial computers, devices and systems, human-machine interface devices, distributed I / O, network structures of industrial relations. Restrictions on the development of such projects are imposed only features programmers or computers that are running STEP 7.
STEP 7 tools allow you to:
* Configure and define the settings of equipment.
* Configure systems of industrial relations and setting parameters of data transmission.
* Programming, testing, debugging and running programs of individual automation systems, as well as their local or remote maintenance.
* Documenting and archiving project data.
* Operational management and diagnostic equipment.
STEP 7 supplied programmers SIMATIC Field PG and SIMATIC Power PG. It may come as a separate software package for personal computers running operating systems Windows 7 / XP PROF. To be able to connect programmable controllers, computer must be equipped with an MPI card or PC / MPI adapter and connecting cable.

STEP 7 provides parallel execution of work on one project by several developers. The only restriction in this case is the impossibility of simultaneous recording of data by multiple developers.

To install Step7 on Windows XP / Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium to:
1. Extract the service pack to your hard disk;
2. Open the file Setups.ini;
3. Find a terrible line;
For Vista WinVistaExclude = SKU2; SKU3; SKU5; SKU8; SKU9; SKU10; SKU11; SKU12; SKU13; SKU14; SKU15; SKU16; SKU17; SKU18; SKU19; SKU20; SKU21; SKU22; SKU23; SKU24; SKU25
For HRyuni WinXPExclude = 0, ...
4. Placed at the beginning of this line, or simply delete it.
Everything is now possible to safely install and use Step7 on Vista Home Premium.



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