Hi,

Does anyone know if it is possible to, and if so then how, to get cyclic communication between PLCSim Advanced and a G120 drive?

In my project I'm using a G120 drive connected via profinet to a 1500SP CPU. Cyclic communication is esthablished using DPWR_DAT and DPRD_DAT. I'm using Siemens telegram 111 and in the real world all of that is working correctly.

At the office I have a real G120 drive with  CU250S 2-PN but unfortunately I don't have a CPU at hand this time so I'm using PLCSim Advance v6 instead.

I can connect to the drive via TIA Portal, Proneta etc but there is no cyclic communication with PLCSim advanced.

Hope anyone can help me out.

Thanks in advance,

Pieter

Thank you for your reply.

I do know about the virtual switch and I am able to communicate with the outside world like another CPU or HMI Runtime on an IPC or a HMI panel.

However Cyclic communication with a real Sinamics drive does'nt work (in my case).

According to @Stefan Arcularius it doesn't work because S7-PLCSIM Advanced cannot simulate fieldbus systems.

I am not realy sure if that applies to cyclic communication with a Sinamics drive also since I'm able to communicate with a real CPU for instance. Isn't that fieldbus too?

Thanks,

Pieter