How to export PLC program as PDF and Print it in Siemens simatic manager and TIA portal
Hello my dear viewers, welcome to my new automation video. Today I’m going to show you how to convert your PLC programming project into PDF. This is a plc program which I have converted previously.
Welcome back after intro. Now I’m going to show you how to convert this plc ladder project into pdf. After watching this video we will be able to convert our whole project into PDF and we can print this project later.
To convert a PLC project in TIA portal press Control button and P button at a time for print command. A new setup page will open and you need to select Name Microsoft Print to PDF from dropdown menu. You can select Foxit Reader or Adobe Acrobat reader also. If you have installed them on your computer.
Document layout: You can select your page layout from this option, for instance, you can select Legal Size paper, Standard A4 size paper.
Print Object Area: This is important. If you want to convert only selected area then select selection or if you want to convert full area then select All. In properties, section select all and then click on the print button. After that please wait a bit.
Now you need to save this converted PLC project on your computer. And lets provide a name of this pdf project.
Now open your saved PDF to check that our program is converted properly or not. Now we can see that our plc programming project has converter properly. We found each and everything in this pdf file. We can use this as an electrical manual for further machine troubleshooting.
Now again we press control + P button and this time in Print Object Area: select selection. And see what the difference between this two is. We can see only selected page has converted into PDF not the whole project.
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