Beginners’ manual Series xx7│Document 26/835; Version E 2│22.04.2005
Saia-Burgess
Controls AG
Importing a confi guration into STEP7
Fundamentals of hardware confi guration
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2. Select the menu option
Insert > External Source
...
The “Insert External Source” window opens.
3. Select and open the required AWL source. The new STL source appears in the
component container.
4. Select the AWL source and translate it with menu option
Edit > Compile
.
Alternatively, you can press
Ctrl+B
.
5. If you now switch to the S7-Program/Blocks directory, you will fi nd the hardware
data block and the CDB (if this was selected in the xx7 I/O Builder).
This hardware data block must now be transferred to the PCD together with the
remaining components. At a Stop→Run transition in the CPU, the hardware
confi guration will be analyzed and applied.
