4/9/2021 2:30 PM | |
Joined: 5/29/2014 Last visit: 10/11/2024 Posts: 60 Rating: (28) |
OS: Windows 10 Pro My problem doesn't seem to be all that rare, because I've found a few similar topics on this forum, but no one seems to have provided a solution. I want to use PLCSIM Advanced 3.0 to simulate a PLC and communicate with some external hardware (ET200eco and ET200 AL modules, to be specific). As a warmup, I tried creating a regular PLC instance via Softbus and succeeded without much trouble at all - I could download my test project to the simulated PLC and connect to it using a simulated HMI. However, I encountered a problem when trying to the the same using a TCP/IP PLC instance. PLCSIM Advanced seems to create these TCP/IP PLC instances without any problem, but I cannot find them at all as accessible devices in TIA Portal Online Access -> Siemens PLCSIM Virtual Ethernet Adapter (in contrast to the Softbus instance, which I easily found earlier in Online Access -> PLCSIM). I tried a number of things: trying to set the Ethernet communication in PLCSIM Advanced to Local or different Ethernet Adapters, fiddling with the IP address/mask of both the simulated PLC and my Ethernet Adapters, checking and unchecking the Siemens PLC Virtual Switch in my Ethernet Adapters, turning off my firewall, even reinstalling PLCSIM advanced, but nothing seems to help. So here I am, forget about connecting the PLC instance to external hardware, I can't even find the instance in TIA Portal to download my project. Am I missing something obvious? I mostly followed the following Siemens Getting Started document: I also skimmed though the PLCSIM Advanced Function Manual (mainly chapters 4 and 5), but couldn't find anything helpful - if anything, it seemed like the process should be fairly straightforward, without complications. Attached picture shows PLCSIM Advanced 3.0 interface with two TCP/IP PLC instances created, and TIA Portal with no detected accessible devices over Siemens PLCSIM Virtual Ethernet Adapter. |
7/5/2021 3:08 PM | |
Joined: 7/5/2021 Last visit: 4/28/2024 Posts: 6 Rating: (0) |
I would be afraid of the next Win update... |
1/9/2022 9:54 AM | |
Joined: 11/8/2014 Last visit: 1/9/2022 Posts: 7 Rating: (0) |
I have the same problem, but with PLCSim A 4.0 I have uninstal and install again, |
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