GPIB Communication with a soft PLC (beckhoff)

Hello,

I would like to setup an easy connection between my GPIB-ENET/1000 ethernet adapter and a soft-PLC running on the same windows computer. It is a beckhoff industrial PC with TwinCAT PLC.

I would like to send and receive a string from the GPIB instrument.

Is it possible to emulate the GPIB instrument as a seriel COM port or are there a better solution? 

Thanks