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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

klui_ wrote:
> > Keepouts would be a decent feature for Kicad. However, it looks like 
> > now I will be doing all my routing in freerouter. Therefore on the 
> > re-import of the session file, I have no need to preserve these
> keepouts 
>
> > because at that point the board is basically done, the tracks are
> laid. 
>
> Please explain a method of autorouting board with 2 or 3 totally
> independent (opto isolated) regions in freerouter.org. Inside
> Specctra+OrCAD I can use keepouts, inside Kicad I can use an 'edges
> pcb' line to emulate this behavior. Inside freerouter.net I think I
> can use dummy net (drawn on all signal layer) which will separate
> regions between each other (prevent segments over existing
> not-connected tracks).

There is a support forum at freerouting.net. Generally I found the 
manual routing capability of freerouter to be far more useful than the 
autorouter for complex boards. And when I used autorouting, I used it 
on a single selected PAD, or a single selected part, and only after 
using the "layer cost" settings to control which layer it might chose. 
Often, "undo" was needed to take back out the auto routed tracks. So 
the answer is to manually route it using freerouter. The manual router 
is outstanding. 

But again, I refer you to the support forum for freerouting.net.


Dick

> Also I've got a problem trying to draw a free track on copper layer
> and connect it to existing net.
>
> P.S. Tomorrow I will compile last svn snapshot with your corrections
> ("enable/disable" padshapes in separate layers). Thanks for a good job!
>
> Regards, Vladimir.