Start Page
The Start Page welcomes you introducing PLCnext Engineer. The Start Page is shown every time you start PLCnext Engineer and it is automatically closed when opening or creating a project.
Accessing the Safety-related Area when opening the project
Recent Projects
The 'Recent projects' list shows the projects that you have recently opened in PLCnext Engineer. Click the project name to open the desired project.
If you use a project frequently, you can pin the project to the 'Recent projects' list so that it will remain on the list until you unpin it. To pin a project to the list, left-click the pin icon of the project (the icon appears when hovering the mouse pointer over the project name). To unpin the project, click the pin.
Show in Explorer
Clicking the 'Open Folder in Explorer' icon on the right side of the pin icon of a recent project opens the file explorer and shows the location of the selected project file.
Templates and Sample Projects
The 'Sample projects' list provides a list of predefined project templates for the controllers supported by PLCnext Engineer. A project template contains a partially configured PLCnext Engineer project with or without application code which you can adapt as required for your specific application.
The general steps for developing an engineering project are described in the topic "Quickstart/Getting started".
To check for available updates to PLCnext Engineer, click on 'Download newest update' in the 'Updates' section on the right. The 'Updates' section shows the installed PLCnext Engineer version and lists the updates you have installed.