Q: KiCAD PCB+Freerouter keep-out regions

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Hi, I have defined keep-out zones for PCB tracks (generated by Freerouter) as rectangles in F+B Courtyard. Yest it seems its ignored by Freerouter. What is correct way to make keep-out zones?

KiCAD and Freerouter are latest stable versions.

Thanks in advance.
Andrei

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Freerouter is not part of the KiCad project. It has very limited routing controls

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Should work. You can examine in Freerouting the objects that were imported from DSN to see if the keepout is there.

You could also ask on their GitHub repo.

I just noticed you wrote:

Keepouts should be on copper layers, like pours, even if you are manually routing.

PS: Although keepouts can go on any layer, if you had looked at the example screenshot in the documentation:

you would have seen that F.Cu is selected.

I can understand how one could form the impression that a courtyard is to keep things out but when all fails, read the documentation.