Instruction Manual

5. Commissioning
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Festo P.BE−GDCP−SFC−LACI−PB−EN en 0812NH
5.5.3 Configuration with STEP 7
General Information
The Simatic Manager software package provides project
planning and commissioning in conjunction with PROFIBUS
masters from Siemens or compatible masters. In order to
understand this chapter, you should be sure of how to handle
your configuration program. If necessary, refer to the
documentation for the Simatic Manager. This description
refers to software
version V 5.3.
An appropriate device master file (GSD file) for the SFC−LACI
must be installed for configuration.
With the STEP 7 Hardware Configurator, you can read in the
files via the menu command [Options] [Install GSD file] in the
dialogue window HWConfig".
Configuration program
File type Directory
STEP 7 Hardware Configurator
1)
GSD file ...\STEP7\S7DATA\GSD
Bitmap files ...\STEP7\S7DATA\NSBMP
1)
If you copy the GSD files when the Simatic Manager has already been started, you can update the
hardware catalogue with the command [Options] [Update Catalog].
Tab.5/3: Folder for GSD and icon files STEP 7