How To Install or Remove The Isagraf Development Platform Properly
How To Install or Remove The Isagraf Development Platform Properly
How To Install or Remove The Isagraf Development Platform Properly
By grady_dun@icpdas.com For the ICP DAS ISaGRAF PACs and the ISaGRAF Workbench software to operate properly, it is imperative that each is setup correctly. This paper covers the details of how to setup the controller system and the ISaGRAF Workbench software in a minimum of time. Hardware Requirements A Personal Computer With At Least A Pentium, 133 MHz Or Faster Processor 32 Mbytes Memory (Preferably 64 Mbytes RAM) A Hard Drive With At Least 128 Mbytes Of Storage Space (Preferably Larger) At Least One RS-232 Serial Port Software Requirements One of the following computer operating systems must be installed on the target computer before you can install the ISaGRAF Workbench software program. Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT Version 3.51 or Windows NT Version 4.0 Windows 2000 Or Windows XP Windows Vista 32-bit Windows 7 The main steps as follows I. Set up the ISaGRAF develop platform 1. Install the ISaGRAF Workbench program 2. Install the ICP DAS Utilities For ISaGRAF program II. Remove the ISaGRAF develop platform
I. Set up the ISaGRAF develop platform 1. Install the ISaGRAF Workbench program
Insert the ISaGRAF Workbench CD into your CD-ROM drive. Normally the auto-start program will activate the "install.bat" file automatically. If your computer does not have the auto-start feature active, use the Windows Explorer and go to the CD-ROM drive where the Workbench CD is installed, then double-click on the "install.bat" file listed on the ISaGRAF CD. If the "install.bat" file is not found on your ISaGRAF CD, then double-click on the "ISaGRAF.exe" file to start the installation process. Once you have started the "install.bat" file, a dialog box will appear as shown as the Figure 1. Select the language version of the ISaGRAF software program you would like to use. The English version is used on all subjects and examples throughout this manual. Figure1 :
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Once you have selected to install the ISaGRAF Workbench program and selected the desired language, just press the "Install" button, and follow the step-by-step directions of each dialog box as they appear to complete the installation process. The first dialog box to appear allows the user to define what drive and subdirectory the ISaGRAF program will install into. Type the path that you want install ISaGRAF workbench into.
The next dialog box asks the user how much of the ISaGRAF program to you wish to install. By default, it is best to allow all of the ISaGRAF programs to install.
Once you have selected which programs and applications are to be installed, the installation process begins, and an installation progress dialog box will appear showing the installation progress.
Once the ISaGRAF Workbench software installation process has been completed, a Windows Explorer window will appear showing the installed programs.
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If your ISaGRAF Key-Pro is USB type, please follow below steps to install the proper USB driver. 1. To make your PC recognize the ISaGRAF USB protection-key, please un-plug the USB protection-key from your USB port first, then run \Sentinel\SSD5411-32bit.exe in the ISaGRAF 3.55 CD-ROM after you have installed the ISaGRAF. Then please reset your PC. 2.To run ISaGRAF Ver. 3.5x, please always plug the USB protection-key in the PCs USB port. NOTE: You must install the hardware protection device (dongle) provided with the ISaGRAF software on your computers parallel port to for the ISaGRAF program to achieve fully authorized functionality.(except the ISaGRAF-32, it doesn't require the dongle) While using ISaGRAF and the dongle is plugged well, if the Help About says Maximum number of IO variables: 32, it means ISaGRAF workbench cannot find the dongle well. Please reset your PC and then check the Help About again. If it still displays Maximum number of IO variables: 32, the dongle driver may not be installed well. Please execute the ISaGRAF CD_ROM \Sentinel5382\setup.exe for ISaGRAF-80 or \Sentinel\setup.exe for other ISaGRAF version (except ISaGRAF-32) or follow the former section if your protection-key is USB type. and then reset the PC again.
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5. Don't check the Use User Account Control(UAC) to help you protect your computer option, then click the OK button
6. Restart your computer once. 7. Follow steps listed in the page 1 to install the ISaGRAF workbench.
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5. Slide the slider bar to the lowest value (towards Never Notify), with description showing Never notify me.
6. Restart your computer once. 7. Follow steps listed in the page 1 to install the ISaGRAF Workbench. For Windows 7 (64-bit): ISaGRAF Ver. 3 can only run in the XP mode inside the Windows 7(64-bit). Please do the following steps to install the XP mode and Virtual PC. Install Virtual PC and XP mode 1. You could check that your PC hardware works with Windows XP Mode by downloading and running Microsoft Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool 2. Download Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode installers from the Windows Virtual PC Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=160479). 3. Download the document, Installation instructions and Release Notes for Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode, from Windows Download Center and follow the steps listed in the document to install Virtual PC and XP mode. 4. Restart your computer once. To Install the ISaGRAF Ver. 3 5. In the virtual machine, please follow the steps listed in the page 1 to install the ISaGRAF workbench.
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NT=1
Isa=C:\ISAWIN The [WS001] header should now look like the above example. The NT=1 entry addition is absolutely required for the RS-232 communications to operate properly in the Windows NT operating environment. When closing the ISaGRAF window on windows 2000, it sometimes holds (No response). You may create a short cut for the ISaGRAF project manager. And then check on "run in separate memory space" option in the shortcut property.
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Note:
If setup.exe is not in your CD-ROM, please download ICP DAS Utilities For ISaGRAF from http://ftp.icpdas.com/pub/cd/wincon_isagraf/napdos/isagraf/io_lib.zip If you change the path of installing the ISaGRAF Workbench, redirect the path of installing the ICP DAS Utilities For ISaGRAF to the path that contains the ISaGRAF Workbench.
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4. Delete the folder that contains the ISaGRAF Workbench Important note: Please backup your project files if you want to keep them before remove the ISaGRAF Workbench.
Click My computer on the desktop and click Local Disk (C:)
Delete the folder ISAWIN (the default path of installing ISaGRAF Workbench is C:\ISAWIN\)
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