Hello, at present, the Auto Route function of our standard version does not include vias. The Auto Route will intelligently determine whether to add vias. If the system thinks that no vias are needed, it will cancel all the vias you add.If you really need to place vias, then manually adjust them yourself after you complete the Auto Route.

I'm pretty sure the auto route cannot intelligently route that solder jumper.  Also pretty sure the system doesn't "think" about the vias.  It just deletes them if they're not on a skipped net and then starts. It's a hole with copper in it connected to a net.  If I manually placed that hole, it probably needs to stay. If I call that hole a "pad", it stays, but if I call that hole a "via" the autorouter deletes it without thinking? The whole idea is to help the autorouter.  There seems to be some conceptual baggage here that exists for no reason.

@goatzilla Currently our automatic routing feature will remove the manually placed "via". We will consider whether to correct this problem. Thank you very much for your suggestion.

Have you tried **Locking** the Via to see if the AutoRouter will leave it alone? In the standard EEDA version I've had good luck **locking** things that I don't want the autoroute to mess with. In the Pro version the autorouter doesn't delete locked things but it sometimes tries to route a track over a track I already placed and then locked. Locking worked well in the standard version but I'm just now getting used to the Pro version and don't yet have a good strategy for being able to do some manual routing and then letting the autorouter do the rest.

@adventurelabs Hello, in the standard version, using the auto rote function after manually placing the via, the system will remove the via automatically. But if you lock the via before auto rote, then the system will not delete it and will keep the via. But we still recommend using the Pro version.