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Creating a project
The Home screen, naming a project, and what the three options in the New project dialog actually change.
UnifCAD opens on Home: your projects and the button that makes a new one. Nothing is created until you say so, and nothing you make here leaves your computer unless you save it to the cloud.
The Home screen
Down the left edge is the rail, and it is the whole application in five words:
| Create | Starts a new project. |
| Home | Where you land: your projects and the two buttons above. |
| Projects | The full list — search it, filter it by module, view it as cards or as a list. |
| Templates | Ready-made example circuits. Open one and you get your own editable copy. |
| Practice | Half-built exercises. Pick what you want to learn, finish it, and check whether it works. |
Any project in the list can be opened, renamed, duplicated or deleted, and you can import one that somebody sent you.
Templates and Practice are not the same thing
A template is a finished circuit you copy to save yourself the drawing. A practice is deliberately unfinished: the missing part is the exercise.
Making a new one
Click through it here first — the demo below behaves like the real dialog: name the project, pick an option, and see where it lands you.
No project open
Create a new project or import one to get started.
Click New project
The dialog opens with the name field already selected, so you can type straight away.
Give it a name
The field arrives filled in with New Project. Replace it. Naming the project now is the difference between a list you can read and a pile of New Project, New Project (2), New Project (3).
Beside the name sits a fixed code — UC-0001, UC-0002 and so on. UnifCAD assigns it, you cannot edit it, and it identifies the project even if you rename it later.
Answer "What do you want to do?"
Three options:
| Option | What it says |
|---|---|
| Full project | Electrical schematic + PLC programming + process, all connected. |
| Electrical schematic | Draw and simulate industrial control circuits. |
| PLC programming | Program in Ladder/ST and simulate your PLC online. |
Press Create project
The project is created and opens on the module you chose: the Programming editor if you picked PLC programming, the Schematic in the other two cases.
The three options do not split the project
This is the part worth reading twice, because it looks like a decision and it is not one.
Whichever option you choose, the project you get is the same and it carries all three modules. Picking PLC programming does not create a programming-only project: the Schematic and the Process are there, empty, waiting for you in the tabs at the top.
You are never locked in
Nothing about that choice is permanent. Start with the schematic, add the program a week later, and model the plant when you need to see it move. The tabs are always there.