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Physical / electrical concepts

Shape-based router

Cuts free space into rooms bounded by real pads and tracks and searches room to room (Freerouting).glossary, Physical / electrical concepts
Cuts free space into rooms bounded by the real pads and tracks and searches room to room (Freerouting, Altium interactive). Option B.glossary, Ants: routing and our own terms (from Nov 2026)

How it looks

Drawing: an idealised patch of board
Free space cut into rooms (dashed). The router never looks at single points, only at these shapes.

How it works

A PATCH OF BOARD, ONE LAYERstarttarget

Where it fits

Option B of how a router sees free space (the three dials). Freerouting works this way. Compare lattice and topological router.

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