Custom Arduino Shield in Fritzing

Create your own Arduino Shield

I use Fritzing to develop prototypes and design simple PCB’s. Although there is vigorous discussion on the merits of Fritzing compared to other open source free tools, I find it meets my needs. One thing that wasn’t obvious (too me at least), was how to create your own custom Arduino shield without having to work out where to place all the pins so it would mount correctly on an Arduino.

Figure 1. Select Arduino Shield from shape — properties.