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Recently I'd been called by Hindalco's Fabrication Plant division to unlock the protected blocks in
Siemens SIMATIC Step 7. They were in need to unlock those blocks since an year because of 1
million Rupees of loss per month. They want to reprogram those blocks but it was locked by the
man who'd done the setup. From the people working in that department, I came to know that
they were trying to call that man (someone from Italy) right here but he's not coming. Actually,
what he'd done was that he'd locked some of the blocks and deleted the source file. And Siemens
didn't provide any feature to unlock. Department people also told me that even the people
working in Siemens don't know how to do it. Being a software engineer I know that any thing can
be reverse engineered. So I took up the challenge.
How did I unlocked the blocks?

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The first thing I'd done was searched about this software at Google and read about what is this
software all about. After that I'd explored the software. A person (might be S7 programmer) told
me about 'Generate source' and shown me a sample by doing it. Further on he'd shown me how do
they lock a block via KNOW_HOW_PROTECT . It was amazing, they just write this line
(KNOW_HOW_PROTECT ) inside a program after begin statement and compile the code. The
compiled code is known as blocks. The blocks are now protected which means the code inside
the block can't be seen by other. Then delete the source and your blocks are now protected.

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Now my objective was to unlock those blocks. So I'd followed the steps given below to unlock
those blocks,
Step 1: Download *.dbf file editor. The free DOS based dbf editor is the one I'd used. You
can download it from, http://www.k ssoft.net/download/other/dbf_edit.zip
Step 2: Extract dbf_edit.exe from the zipped file. Put it somewhere to easily access it. I'd
put
it inside a folder named dbfedit in C: drive. So path to run the editor is
C:\DBFEDIT>dbfedit.exe
Step 3: To unlock the blocks, copy a file named SUBBLK.DBF from
..\PROJECT\ombstx\offline\00000001\ folder where PROJECT is the directory containing
your S7 Project. Paste this file inside C:\DBFEDIT\ folder.
Step 4: Open Command Prompt (DOS window) via clicking on

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or
Start All Programs Accessories Command Prompt
Step 5: Follow these commands,
C:\>cd dbfedit
C:\DBFEDIT>dbfedit.exe subblk.dbf

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A DOS based application will open. Search for the PASSWORD column. And change all 3 into 0
to unlock the blocks. Press Esc/F10 key to save and exit.

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C:\DBFEDIT>exit
Step 6: Copy the SUBBLK.DBF file inside C:\DBFEDIT\ folder and paste it at it's
original location. Always remember to make the backup of original SUBBLK.DBF.

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Step 7: Now open the project in SIMATEC Step 7 software. All the blocks are
unlocked. So my objective is completed successfully.
It took me around 3 hours to complete this for the first time. But after that I can do it within
5 minutes.

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42 comments:
jk August 12, 2009 at 2:06 PM
great, nice article
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Anonymous October 17, 2011 at 1:19

AM thanks abhi, u r outstanding
man...... Reply

Anonymous October 18, 2011 at 4:40 PM

thank you very much
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Anonymous October 23, 2011 at 1:04 AM

gracias hombre
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Patrick December 20, 2011 at 3:21 PM

This worked exactly as described and solved our
problem. Thanks
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Anonymous April 5, 2012 at 11:27

PM Thanks
Great guy
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Anonymous September 15, 2012 at 11:07

AM Hi,
Just tried it out and it didn't work. Tried on Simatic 5.5.
Is it just file subblk.dbf at folder 000001 that needs to be edited or file subblk.dbf at the
other folder too?
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Tallak Tveide October 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM

Hi! For those using Linux you might want to try this out: https://gist.github.com/3899286
It is a free perl script that automates the unlocking process
I guess it should work on windows as well, but installation would be different (I havent
tried this)
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Alberto March 15, 2013 at 5:37 AM

Thanks for the hint, but it didn't work at all. Please try with SFC46, for example, the
passwaord comes already in 0.
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Anonymous March 22, 2013 at 1:37 AM

WHO EVER YOU ARE YOU MADE MY DAY :) THANKS ALOT YARA THANKS :).. MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
:)..
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ragupathy chinnaswamy June 14, 2013 at 7:16 AM

have you got anything to unlock TIA portal Function blocks??
Thanks
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Juan Jos Catrileo July 17, 2013 at 9:48 PM

amazing, worked flawlessly, thank you very
much!! Reply

Saad Kamil August 25, 2013 at 3:59 PM

you told to change all 3 into 0 but they can't be changed.do help us
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Anonymous August 29, 2013 at 6:53

AM Saad Kamil,
on your keyboard, press the enter key and then remove 3 with del key and change the value to
0 and hit enter again ..
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Anonymous August 29, 2013 at 7:11 AM

Thank you very much Kumar , it works, but not with SFC and SFB
you have an idea to unlock this
blocks. Best regards
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Anonymous October 29, 2013 at 8:04

PM Thanks buddy :)
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Anonymous December 19, 2013 at 1:06

AM Thank a lot..
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Anonymous December 23, 2013 at 7:04 AM

Thank you very much Kumar , it works, but not with SFC and SFB
you have an idea to unlock this
blocks. Best regards
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Abhishek Kumar

December 23, 2013 at 6:08 PM

No idea! I have not worked with SFC & SFB.

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Anonymous
AM

December 23, 2013 at 7:10

ola Kumar nao consegui desbloquear tenho fazer a troca do digito 3 para zero ou vice
versa? Reply

GECSACH January 13, 2014 at 8:27

PM
i follow the instruction above , but nothing happen DOS do not recognize the program at all,
another thing in my proyect i dont have the folder 0000001 to copy a have other with
the number 0000004 what that is mean???
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Marian Marcin Olszewski

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February 5, 2014 at 7:04

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Mariano February 5, 2014 at 7:14 PM

it means that it is probably protected in other way, not via KNOW_HOW_PROTECT, do I
have right?
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Mariano February 5, 2014 at 7:16 PM

perhapse by https://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/llisapi.dll?
func=cslib.csinfo&objId=45632073&objAction=csOpen&nodeid0=10805384&lang=en&siteid=cseus&
ak tprim=0&extranet=standard&viewreg=WW
but I'm not really sure
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Aurino Adityawan February 21, 2014 at 9:22

AM Thank's about this very useful information..
but when I try to my project, that dbf_edit application didn't show anything. What do you think
Abhishek Kumar??
and in another project I can't find subfolder 00000001..there are only 00000002 and
00000008. What it's mean??it's the same??
Thank you for your
answer.. Reply

Michael Angelo Cartilla March 10, 2014 at 10:33

AM Thank you very much buddy.
Reply

lair lai March 28, 2014 at 9:58

AM this is sooooooo good thank
you Reply

Anonymous April 3, 2014 at 10:56 AM

Thanks a lot Kumar, that works
great.
Just responding to some comments. In your Step 7 project your blocks will reside under a
folder called S7_Program(x), with a number x. Your project could have several of these
folders with different numbers. The blocks in that folder are stored on your hard drive
under folder
0000000x, with the same number x. You need to use the subblk.dbf file from the correct
folder, which can be different from 00000001. Hope this helps.
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Anonymous October 20, 2014 at 3:53

PM Hi all

Has anyone here successfully done this in TIA PORTAL V11/V12 especially for the
example programs on the siemens automation website ?

Reply

Anonymous November 14, 2014 at 12:23 AM

Hi, someone can help to unprotect blocks of TIA PORTAL V12??
thx!! Reply

Anonymous November 17, 2014 at 11:22

PM Hello,
This method doesn't work all the time.
To be sure it works, create a new project with the only blocks you need to
unlock. Reply

Anonymous December 17, 2014 at 2:12

AM Is there a 64 bit version?
Thanks.
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Abhishek Kumar

December 18, 2014 at 2:19 PM

Yes! It is available. Just google it.

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Balaji August 11, 2015 at 9:38 PM

Checked working, great , thank
you.... Reply

Cesare Missorini September 23, 2015 at 5:48

PM Hi
I just did eveything you suggested and nowin S7 Manager, all the blocks in my project
are actually free.
But when ompen them, they are empty... Blank
pages... Any idea? Tks
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Unknown March 5, 2016 at 2:38 AM

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viveksm April 27, 2016 at 10:44 AM

It does not work with SFC. Does anyone know know to unprotect
SFC? Reply

Anonymous July 27, 2016 at 3:18

PM Amazing! Works great.
Thanks a lot!
Just for information: You can use any other .dbf editor. I used GTK DBF Editor (you can google it)
and it works also.
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Abhishek Kumar

July 29, 2016 at 10:18 AM

Well a decade ago, I found only DBFEDIT as free tool. But now there are other
options available.
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