Sajid Posted August 9, 2006 Report Posted August 9, 2006 Hi people, I have a question to ask. I have recently been working with the SIMATIC Manager for S7 300 and 400 PLCs.It has a a built in simulation tool.I have written a few programs and tested them with the Simulation thing. I was wondering if there is any way to communicate with a SCADA program like InTouch running on the same machine using DDE.I tried to looking in the help files but could not find any detailed explanation on DDE. Has anyone tried such a thing before??Thanks for your inputs. Sajid Khan. Quote
JesperMP Posted August 9, 2006 Report Posted August 9, 2006 Hi Sajid. Unfortunately Siemens S7-PLCSIM only works with Siemens own softwares, i.e. STEP7, Protool, WinCC and WinCC Flexible. Not sure, but I think that there are 3rd party simulators from either Deltalogic, IBH or MHJ. And I think (not sure) that you can connect to them via f.ex. OPC. Quote
Sajid Posted August 10, 2006 Author Report Posted August 10, 2006 Thanks JesperMP for the information.I am not very familiar with other simulation softwares but I will surely have a look at the ones you suggested.Its always very handy to have a simulation software in the non-availability of a PLC.And thats always the situation here.The program is to be developed and tested before actually working with the PLC. Quote
JesperMP Posted August 10, 2006 Report Posted August 10, 2006 Hi again Sajid. I checked it a bit more, and it looks like the simulator below is the best contender. You should contact them and ask if it is possible to do as you intend. http://www.ibhsoftec-sps.de/english/Sim_S7.htm Quote
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