> 1. Is there a place I should look to read about this? I didn't find > much in the Help and FAQ.
I don't know, but I found there wasn't much to understand. Sometimes things don't seem to work properly or as you would like them to, but otherwise it's pretty simple. > 2. Why is it in PCBNew instead of EESchema? Because it's for PCB routing. So you might do a bit of initial work in PCBNew (such as creating a PCB edge and placing the footprints within the edge as you require), export the DSN file to do the routing, and then after importing into PCBNew the resultant Spectra session file do some cleaning up. Note that it's not essential to use this feature. It is there mainly if you want to take advantage of the very impressive Freerouter (http://www.freerouting.net/). > 3. Are the KiCad footprints exported or must the target router have > matching footprints. The footprints are exported wherever you place them. I suggest you create a really simple circuit in EEScheema, add a board edge and place the footprints in PCBNew, and then uses the DSN export/import to allow you to play with Freerouter. You may also want to use Google (the Yahoo Groups search is not terribly good) to search this list for posts on Freerouter so you can see what has caused problems in the past. Hope that points you in the right direction. Regards, Robert.
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