I went one further using vias after adding cooling; grounding the VSS pin on the voltage regulator with 3 large vias.
This way it doesn't mess up the smaller vias I have on signal traces and VSS pins on tiny SMD ICs.
CORRECTION:
These are labelled backwards. The 7805 uses the TO-263 package and the Hexfet uses D2Pak (in my project).
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