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.
When hovering the mouse pointer over the project name, two icons appear on the right of the project name:
  | Pins the project to the 'Recent projects' list so that it will remain on the list until you unpin it. To unpin the project, click the pin icon. |
 | Opens the Windows® 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 grouped by category (collapsible section) 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.
You can pin a project template to the 'Favorites' category which is displayed above the default categories. To do this, hover over the template you want to pin and then click the icon. To unpin a template from the 'Favorites' category, click the icon.
The general steps for developing an engineering project are described in the topic "Quickstart/Getting started".