Fritzing for Inventors: Take Your Electronics Project from Prototype to Product by Monk Simon & Monk Simon

Author:Monk, Simon & Monk, Simon [Monk, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2015-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

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FIGURE 6-18 The PCB design with text and logo.

The rat’s nest has vanished because, having assured myself that they have actually been routed, I have deselected Rat’s Nest Layer from the View menu.

Step 9. Design Rule Check

On a simple design like this, it is fairly easy to manually check the design for traces crossing on the same layer, running too close to pads, etc. However, it is always worth running the Design Rule Checker (DRC), which will automatically check for these things. You can run this from the Routing menu. Once it has run, if all is well, you will get a message that says: “Your sketch is ready for production: there are no connectors or traces that overlap or are too close together.”

Hurray, your PCB layout is good to go. In Chapter 7, you will learn how to go about having real PCBs made from your design as well as how to solder components to them. But before that, there are quite a lot of details that we skipped over in this example that I want to catch up on.

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