Newbie question here: I'm getting back into hobby electronics and using Diptrace to draw some schematics. Drawing the schematic itself is no problem, but I'm wondering on how to properly draw/connect/annotate the power connectors and corresponding rails.
I've attached a picture of the basic idea in DaveCAD. I want to hook up a power supply through a connector. The bottom rail is ground, the upper rail after the diode and elco will be used as +12V throughout the schematic. For instance for driving the IC's (drawn to the right).
The second attachment shows the problem I'm encountering in Diptrace: how to draw this correctly? Do I draw a connector, wire that up and then use ground and +12V symbols to connect to the rails? I.e. does Diptrace know that if I connect these symbols in various parts in the schematic that those nets should be joined? I tried using the +12V throughout the diagram, but this did not translate in the ratsnest/ pcb design: all nets were still separate. So is there a special way to do this/ how do I do this properly without bodging up some schematic atrocity? Does anybody know a place where this is properly explained?