Honour KiCad's keepouts: keyhole rings, wire_keepout, per-tile rasterizing

On the TerraHawk rc4 power stage every engine misread the board's rule areas:

- A no-track ring along the board edge arrives as one keyhole polygon, and
  keepout polygons were wrapped in a single convex tile, so the ring became
  the whole board. Split keepout polygons into convex pieces instead.
- The grid engine rasterized an area by its overall bounding box, which for
  that ring is again the whole board; it routed nothing. Rasterize per tile.
- "Keep router off" rule areas arrive as wire_keepout, which the reader did
  not know, so tracks ran through them (172 DRC items_not_allowed). Read it
  at board and image level. For now it blocks vias too, which is stricter
  than KiCad and cannot create a violation.
- place_keepout only restricts part placement; stop treating it as copper.

The oracle now runs the JAR headless; it was opening FreeRouting's GUI on
the desktop for every oracle test.
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2026-09-27 06:30:43 -06:00
parent b26fdd96d5
commit 3ad5c983f5
6 changed files with 115 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import math
from freeroute.dsn.model import DsnBoard
from freeroute.dsn.shapes import Circle, Path, Polygon, Rectangle, Shape
from freeroute.geometry import FloatPoint, IntBox, IntPoint, IntVector, Simplex
from freeroute.geometry.polygon_shape import PolygonShape
from .board import BasicBoard
from .clearance import ClearanceMatrix
@@ -219,11 +220,14 @@ def _insert_keepouts(dsn: DsnBoard, board: BasicBoard, transform: CoordinateTran
signal_layers = [i for i, layer in enumerate(dsn.layers) if layer.is_signal]
for keepout in dsn.keepouts:
# A place_keepout only restricts where parts go, not copper.
if keepout.kind == "place_keepout":
continue
area = keepout.area
if area is None or area.border is None:
continue
tile = _area_border_tile(area.border, transform)
if tile is None:
tiles = _area_border_tiles(area.border, transform)
if not tiles:
continue
border_layer = area.border.layer
if border_layer in ("signal", "pcb"):
@@ -237,11 +241,36 @@ def _insert_keepouts(dsn: DsnBoard, board: BasicBoard, transform: CoordinateTran
ObstacleArea(
name=keepout.area.name,
layer=layer_index,
tiles=[tile],
tiles=tiles,
)
)
def _area_border_tiles(shape: Shape, transform: CoordinateTransform) -> list:
"""Convex board tiles covering a keepout border shape.
Polygons are split into convex pieces rather than wrapped in one convex
tile: KiCad exports a rule area with a hole (a no-track ring along the
board edge, say) as a single keyhole polygon, and its convex hull is the
whole board.
"""
if isinstance(shape, (Polygon, Path)):
coords = shape.coords
pts = [
IntPoint(
round(transform.dsn_to_board(coords[i])),
round(transform.dsn_to_board(coords[i + 1])),
)
for i in range(0, len(coords) - 1, 2)
]
if len(pts) >= 3:
pieces = [t for t in PolygonShape(pts).split_to_convex() if not t.is_empty()]
if pieces:
return pieces
tile = _area_border_tile(shape, transform)
return [tile] if tile is not None else []
def _area_border_tile(shape: Shape, transform: CoordinateTransform):
"""Convert an absolute-coordinate keepout border shape to one board tile."""
if isinstance(shape, Rectangle):
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@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ class Image:
outlines: list[Shape] = field(default_factory=list)
keepouts: list[Area] = field(default_factory=list)
via_keepouts: list[Area] = field(default_factory=list)
wire_keepouts: list[Area] = field(default_factory=list)
place_keepouts: list[Area] = field(default_factory=list)
@@ -174,7 +175,7 @@ class Keepout:
"""A structure-level keepout area with its kind."""
area: Area
kind: str = "keepout" # keepout | via_keepout | place_keepout
kind: str = "keepout" # keepout | via_keepout | wire_keepout | place_keepout
@dataclass
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@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ def _read_structure(node: SExp, board: DsnBoard) -> None:
area = read_area(it)
if area is not None:
board.keepouts.append(Keepout(area=area, kind="via_keepout"))
elif head == "wire_keepout":
# KiCad writes a "no tracks" rule area this way (vias allowed).
area = read_area(it)
if area is not None:
board.keepouts.append(Keepout(area=area, kind="wire_keepout"))
elif head == "place_keepout":
area = read_area(it)
if area is not None:
@@ -285,6 +290,10 @@ def _read_image(node: SExp) -> Image | None:
area = read_area(it)
if area is not None:
image.via_keepouts.append(area)
elif head == "wire_keepout":
area = read_area(it)
if area is not None:
image.wire_keepouts.append(area)
elif head == "place_keepout":
area = read_area(it)
if area is not None:
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@@ -199,11 +199,14 @@ class GridRouter:
elif isinstance(item, ObstacleArea):
if item.layer not in self.layers:
continue
box = item.bounding_box()
if box.is_empty():
continue
for cell in self._cells_in_box(box, self.clearance):
self._keepout.add((*cell, item.layer))
# Tile by tile: the area's own bounding box of a ring (a
# no-track border along the board edge) is the whole board.
for tile in item.tiles:
box = tile.bounding_box()
if box.is_empty():
continue
for cell in self._cells_in_box(box, self.clearance):
self._keepout.add((*cell, item.layer))
# --- occupancy cost -----------------------------------------------------
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@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import pytest
from freeroute.board import BasicBoard, ObstacleArea, Pin, build_board
from freeroute.dsn import parse_dsn
from freeroute.geometry import IntPoint
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
@@ -129,3 +130,60 @@ def test_board_net_set_covers_oracle_routed_nets(board):
assert routed, "oracle produced no routed nets"
# every net the reference router routed exists on our constructed board
assert routed <= board.nets.names()
# --- keepouts as KiCad exports them ------------------------------------------
# Found on the TerraHawk charge-node boards (2026-09-27): a no-track ring along
# the board edge arrives as one keyhole polygon, "keep router off" rule areas
# arrive as wire_keepout, and neither may block the board's interior.
_RING_DSN = """(pcb ring (parser) (resolution um 10) (unit um)
(structure
(layer F.Cu (type signal)) (layer B.Cu (type signal))
(boundary (path pcb 0 0 0 40000 0 40000 -30000 0 -30000 0 0))
(keepout "" (polygon F.Cu 0 0 0 40000 0 40000 -30000 0 -30000 0 0
500 -500 500 -29500 39500 -29500 39500 -500 500 -500 0 0))
(wire_keepout "pour" (polygon F.Cu 0 10000 -10000 20000 -10000 20000 -20000 10000 -20000))
(place_keepout "courtyard" (polygon F.Cu 0 30000 -10000 35000 -10000 35000 -20000 30000 -20000))
(rule (width 250) (clearance 150)))
(placement) (library) (network))"""
def _areas(dsn_text):
return build_board(parse_dsn(dsn_text)).get_obstacle_areas()
def _blocked(areas, x_um, y_um):
p = IntPoint(x_um * 10, y_um * 10)
return any(t.contains(p) for a in areas for t in a.tiles)
def test_keyhole_ring_keepout_blocks_only_the_border():
areas = _areas(_RING_DSN)
assert _blocked(areas, 200, -15000) # inside the 0.5 mm edge strip
assert not _blocked(areas, 5000, -5000) # open board interior
def test_wire_keepout_is_read_and_blocks_its_area():
dsn = parse_dsn(_RING_DSN)
assert [k.kind for k in dsn.keepouts].count("wire_keepout") == 1
assert _blocked(_areas(_RING_DSN), 15000, -15000)
def test_place_keepout_does_not_block_routing():
assert not _blocked(_areas(_RING_DSN), 32500, -15000)
def test_grid_router_leaves_the_interior_of_a_ring_keepout_open():
from freeroute.route.pipeline import route_dsn_board
ring_only = "\n".join(
line for line in _RING_DSN.splitlines() if "wire_keepout" not in line
).replace(
"(placement) (library) (network)",
"(placement (component P (place P1 5000 -15000 front 0) (place P2 35000 -15000 front 0)))\n"
" (library (image P (pin pad 1 0 0)) (padstack pad (shape (circle F.Cu 600)) (attach off)))\n"
" (network (net N (pins P1-1 P2-1)))",
)
result, _, _ = route_dsn_board(parse_dsn(ring_only), max_passes=2)
assert result.routed_net_numbers
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@@ -111,12 +111,17 @@ def route_dsn(dsn_path: str | Path, *, max_passes: int = 6, timeout: int = 180)
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".ses", delete=False) as tmp:
out_path = tmp.name
try:
# Headless: without these the JAR opens its GUI on the developer's
# desktop for every oracle run.
env = {k: v for k, v in os.environ.items() if k not in ("DISPLAY", "WAYLAND_DISPLAY")}
subprocess.run(
[JAVA, "-jar", JAR, "-de", str(dsn_path), "-do", out_path, "-mp", str(max_passes)],
[JAVA, "-Djava.awt.headless=true", "-jar", JAR, "-de", str(dsn_path),
"-do", out_path, "-mp", str(max_passes), "--gui.enabled=false"],
capture_output=True,
text=True,
timeout=timeout,
check=False,
env=env,
)
text = Path(out_path).read_text()
finally: