Siemens PLC S7 5.3 project convert to 5.0

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Patrick Verdonck

Does anyone know how to easily convert a siemens S7 made with version 5.3 into a 5.1 project?
 
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david mertens

From 5.1 to 5.3 shouldn't be a problem, the other way round may be a bit tricky. One way to go about this is to create source files for all your blocks in the 5.3 project, export these source files to disk (you will get all your sources in text files). Now these source files can be imported into a V5.1 project with the limitation that new functionality used in these files will generate errors or warnings when importing. Mostly this new functionality can be removed without much problems. However that should be evaluated on a case by case basis. Once everything is imported you have a V5.1 project which may require some extra testing. Check especially those blocks that where having import problems and you had to manually change in order to import the block without errors.
 
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