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The primary advantage of TIA Portal is the single development environment.

Siemens no longer sells new licenses for V13. Modern versions (V18, V19) offer vastly superior performance, Version Control Interface (VCI), and cloud connectivity. However, if you receive a machine from an OEM that refuses to update, you can still run V13 on a dedicated virtual machine (VMware or VirtualBox) with Windows 10 LTSC. tia portal v13

Only if you are supporting an existing machine. The primary advantage of TIA Portal is the

When a Function Block (FB) is created, TIA V13 automatically generates an Instance DB to store the internal state variables of that block. However, if you receive a machine from an

V13 manages "Check-out" and "Check-in" of objects. While one user is editing the Main OB, it is locked for others. This prevents overwriting code and significantly reduces project commissioning time.