9.4
Working in the SIMATIC Manager
9.4.1
Preparations in SIMATIC Manager
Prerequisites
Before you start configuring in the OS, there are a few preliminary steps to be performed in
SIMATIC Manager:
Step
Procedure
1
Adapt picture names and activate the function for creating block icons (Page 143)
2
Delete unnecessary pictures (Page 144)
3
4
Editing the picture properties
Since the PCS 7 "New Project" wizard has already created pictures, they have default names
similar to CFCs. You must first adapt these default names to suit your project requirements by
assigning short descriptive names to them.
You also need to activate the function for creating block icons.
Deleting unnecessary pictures
When you create a project with the PCS 7 "New Project" wizard, pictures are automatically
inserted in every hierarchy folder of the plant hierarchy. Since you require only one picture in
your "color_gs" project, you must remove the unnecessary pictures from the Plant Hierarchy.
Creating block icons
PCS 7 SMART provides you with the "Create block icons" function. Block icons are inserted
in process pictures and they provide the operator with the most important information on a
process tag at a glance. For example, in the block icon for a controller, the operator sees the
process value (PV), the setpoint (SP) and the manipulated value (MV). The block icon for a
controller is displayed in a process picture as shown below:
Configuring the operator station
9.4 Working in the SIMATIC Manager
PCS 7 SMART Getting Started - Part 1 (V9.0 with APL)
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Getting Started, 12/2017, A5E42181435-AA
