Chapter 1: Starting a New Project with TIA Portal
This chapter covers the core requirements to get started with TIA Portal. This includes the physical layout of the environment and different viewpoints, available tools, adding/configuring devices, and library management. The differences between online and offline views are also covered.
After reading this chapter, programmers should feel comfortable with the basic navigation of TIA Portal and have enough knowledge to be confident about the following:
- Adding devices to a new project
- Knowing where instructions and other tools are located
- Using the project library
- Using a global library
- Viewing online and offline views of connected devices
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Windows and panes – layout of the development environment
- Getting started with a new project in theProject view
- The Reference and Details views – tools to aid development
- Instructions and libraries
- Online testing environment