Power Rails in PCB Design

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I’m attempting to add power rails to my PCB design, however, I’m stuck with how I would approach this or if there’s a tool built in that would allow me to do this. Thank you.

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What do you mean by power rail? I’d expect that to be an extra wide trace (which you can make by selecting the trace width in Inspector

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bigger

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or you can type in a size up to 255mil (although you need to check the generated gerbers because there used to be a bug which didn’t center the pad correctly …)

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beyond that you can do copper fill to use all the available copper in a given area.

Peter

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Hello,
Sorry let me clarify, by the power rail I meant a design similar to these types of PCB prototype boards.

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Ah! This (if you only want pcb view)

is as close as you will come due to Fritzing limitations. You can also use the stripboard settings in Inspector:

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If you click with the mouse on the trace between pads it will break the connection as shown.

Peter