Hi everyone,
I'm designing an Aluminum PCB to help dissipate the heat of the high power LEDs that the PCB will hold. All the components will be surface mounted since the back of the PCB is aluminum and will be pushed flush against the heat-sink. There is going to be quite a lot of traces/wiring going around the PCB. Normally in a regular PCB, I'd use via holes to easily route the traces in a simple 2 layer design. However, with the aluminum PCB, having **a double layer would double the cost compared to a single layer. **
With this huge price jump, I'll have to go with an **one-layer design and plan to use SMT jumpers like this**[**one**](https://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/keystone-electronics/5100/36-5100-ND/4780767)** where it's needed to get some traces to its destination.** The problem is I don't have a solid idea on what path each traces will go and I'm kind of "free-styling" it. Currently, if a jumper is needed at a certain place, I'd need to add the jumper component in the schematics, wire it in the correct place, and do a PCB update. There is going to be a lot of jumpers being placed and I have to make sure they're place corrected in the schematic or PCB routing will be wrong.
**Is there a way to place the jumper in-between component routing in the PCB design and have it automatically reflect back on the schematic?** Right now, it' manually placing the jumper in the schematic and then click "update PCB" to have it be reflected on the PCB design.
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