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>> P.S. What about 'routing keepouts areas/lines' =) ?
> Sorry, I do not understand your question. Please rephrase and
> elaborate your question.

The question is about 'keepout areas'. Using Specctra one can draw
routing keepout area. Using Kicad there is no such a layer or tool as
I know. Using Kicad internal autorouter I can draw "edges pcb" line to
emulate routing fences. It works and tested.

Export to .dsn format does a bad job for such edges =)
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7531/outlinespr6.jpg
Upper: freerouting.net (i've got no specctra there for now) - we see
strange shape instead of vertical line like in
Down: Kicad screenshot with vertical line.

In Kicad .brd file has:
Po 0 4000 0 4000 5000 150
Po 0 0 2500 0 0 150 *
Po 0 0 5000 0 2500 150 *
Po 0 10000 5000 0 5000 150
Po 0 10000 0 10000 5000 150
Po 0 0 0 10000 0 150
*Note: I've placed (0 2500) poin (center of the left vertical line) to
make a Segments in .dsn file instead of Rectangle

In specctra we have (use 1:10 scale and y'=-y):
1. Pure rectangle + (0,250) point       
(path pcb 0 0 0 0 -250 0 -500 1000 -500 1000 0)
2. +vertical line (400,0)-(400,-500)
(path pcb 0 400 0 0 -250 0 0 1000 0 1000 -500 0 -500)
And the screen shot from freerouting.net shows the same...

Conclusion: Is it possible to add 'routing fences' layer because this
way seems totally bad....

P.S. source files: http://rapidshare.com/files/99164325/outlines.tar.html