Hello,

I'm new to the siemens controllers, and i wanted to ask if it's possible to send a file through profinet from PC to the PLC controller, and how if it is. 

I am working on a little project and i want to send a G code file to the controller. Unfortunately i don't have any other parts than Siemens 1214. 

Hello Borutti,

You can use the web interface to put file on the SD card.

G code, as far as I know, is not a code support by S7-1200.

Best regards,

Hugo

Hello HugoD, 

Thank you for you fast response.

Unfortunately i don't own a Siemens dedicated SD card, so i don't think that is going to work. Does that mean i can't send a file do the controller without one? 

I do know that G code isn't supported by siemens, but is it possible to write an interpreter in an SCL language by myself? 

borutti

Hello HugoD, 

Thank you for you fast response.

Unfortunately i don't own a Siemens dedicated SD card, so i don't think that is going to work. Does that mean i can't send a file do the controller without one? 

I do know that G code isn't supported by siemens, but is it possible to write an interpreter in an SCL language by myself? 

 Hello Borutti,

As far as I know, SD card is the only place you will be able to put file in a S7-1200.

There is an application exemple that could guide you in the right way.

Using recipes with S7-1200

On the first view, I think they import csv file into the SD card and then it is use to change the recipe.

Maybe somebody else have a better idea.

Best regards,

Hugo

Hello,

what I want to know is, how you can imagine use that file on PLC. One simple solution can be use TCP protocol and send file from PC like stream of bytes to receive buffer in PLC. This is trivial from PC side as standard output. Then you can check each byte of internal file representation.

Hi!

   I agree with Duris. You would be better off writing the interpreter in the PC side and send the raw data to the PLC using the Open user communication blocks.

Hello,

Thank you all for your help

I have decided to use the Snap7 library for the communication between PC and PLC if someone would be interested how to do it.