Support Packages for TIA Portal V13 June 2018. 1.2.43 HSP 0161. 1.2.54 HSP 0241 –STEP 7 V13 SP1 Update 8 is required! How to update TIA v13 to TIA v13 SP1. Portal has an update tool you can. I got a permission to download the SP1 files and I will do it today and see what will.

(Updated June, 2016.) Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) is the current Siemens engineering framework for automation. It is vastly different from the 5.x version and it took me time to get used to.

Overall, it has been improving steadily with each new version but there are still a few pesky issues that can be a bother. This is valid for version 13 service pack 1 update 9 (June 2016) but some of these issues have been present in earlier versions. (I will update this post regularly.) First things first: back up often With the classic Step 7 5.x you always had the option of saving each window individually. Sometimes it can be useful not to save after a download, so that you can quickly revert back to the last saved version. The programming editor could crash, resulting in the possible loss of work for any window in the editor that wasn't saved. Other components would survive the crash.

There is an important deviation in TIA Portal: a crash of the software brings down the entire software suite, resulting in the loss of anything not saved, not just the current window and/or the current editor, but everything (tags, alarms, HMI components, hardware configurations, etc). Therefore, it is sage advise to not only save but also back up often throughout the day.

You can't save the contents of selected windows or components, it is all or nothing. Backing up an open project can be done from within TIA Portal without closing the project. The resulting.zap13 file is a ZIP file with a custom Windows extension. (I should point out that since V13 Update 3 the stability has vastly improved.

With V13 SP1 UPD1 I experienced only one crash -- knock on wood.) Undo missing for STL networks In any ladder network you can use the undo function. In STL networks, however, any accidental deletions of code or any typos are permanent: no undo implemented for STL.

Siemens engineers must never make mistakes. No undo for STL networks. Recently, I accidentally selected a fair amount of code and before realizing this I had pressed delete. I was able to restore the deleted code from one of the very frequent backups I make throughout the day, but it is time consuming to open a second project, find and copy the code. A simple undo would be so nice. Edit: Even in ladder networks the undo function is not always available.

It seems inconsistent. Update: this has improved considerably with V13 Update 5. Major problem: incorrect marking of difference offline/online Often, the software will indicate differences between online/offline versions. This seems to be based on time stamps, rather than actual code differences. See: Comment changes in STL networks forces recompile/download elsewhere. The classic Step 7 would display this with different symbols, red for code differences (based on checksum) and yellow for time stamp mismatches (which can occur if you have made comment changes after downloading a block). Insufficient scroll wheel support The scroll wheel is supported.

However, scrolling by hovering over a window without highlighting it is not supported consistently. Some windows (like the assignment lists) do not support scrolling with the scroll wheel at all. Advanced concepts of personal training lab manual answers. Really, Siemens?

No scrolling with Control-Up/Down Any decent programming editor will support scrolling with the keyboard combinations Control-Up and Control-Down. It scrolls the page up and down without moving the location of the cursor.

Version 5.x supported it, although not in all editors. SCL, for example, didn't support it. Unfortunately, this is not implemented for TIA Portal at all. Monitor after download Once a block has been downloaded to the PLC it will take some time before TIA Portal performs a checksum test and updates the status indicating the offline and online version matches.