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  • $129.00 USD per licence
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Repairing modern high density electronics devices demands the utilisation of boardview software. FlexBV integrates your boardview files with schematics to substantially ease the process of tracking down faults and understanding damaged boards.
  • XZZPCB
  • • Landrex/Testlink BRD
  • • GenCAD CAD
  • • TeboView TVW
  • • ASUS FZ
  • • BVRaw BVR
  • • IPC365 IPC
  • • OrCAD ASCII Export OBD
  • • Altium/Protel ASCII Export
  • • Hyperlynx HYP
  • • Fabmaster FAB
  • • GR
  • • ASC
  • • CST
  • • MDJSON MDJ

Macbook BRD format file with associated PDF schematic

Who is it meant for?
  • You're a professional repair agent who performs board level electronics repairs on devices with access to boardviews and schematics
  • You're part of an assembly or rework team with an in-house, or contracted system
  • You currently use OpenBoardview, or Landrex but want the PDF cross referencing and superior rendering
Key Features
  • Cross searching between Boardview and Schematic
  • Per concurrent seat perpetual ownership licence, no subcriptions, upgrade only when you want to
  • Library caching means you can rapidly load boards from an archive of tens-of-thousands
  • Built in job support with easy access to SQLite3 database for alternative integrations
  • Available for Windows (10, 111, macOS (Big Sur) and Linux2
  • Supports OpenBoardData diagnostic resources
  • More boardview formats supported than any other standalone offering
  • Customisable themes with several built in defaults
  • Concurrent split board view (Butterfly mode)
  • Does not require always-on internet
  • Export boards to BVR3 or SVG
  • English as primary language
  • Board annotations
1,2 Be sure to always verify the product will work on your system prior to purchase, use the demo or free version
Need Support?
  • Note: English is the only supported language.
  • For all enquries, in please email Support.
  • Please allow up to one (1) business working day for a response; usually responses are a lot faster but sometimes it can take up to a day.
  • If you have not received a response within a business day check your spam filter
  • If you're having trouble loading a file, please send through a copy of the file so we can examine it
  • Please don't use PayPal disputes for support requests.

iPhone 7 in XZZ PCB format

Teboview support with defined pad & part outlines, and silkscreen

Recent Updates
  • April 18, 2025: 5.0767
    • XZZPCB: Improved drill detection
    • XZZPCB: Improved debutterflying
    • UI: Improve cache list keyboard scroll-through (autowrap)
    • UI: Automatically flip board on loading to bias more pins to display center
  • April 15, 2025: 5.0757
    • XZZPCB: Support re-enabled for 2-sided boards (rare occurence but they do exist)
    • Cache: Support for up/down->enter keyboard sequence for selecting items from search results
  • April 13, 2025: 5.0742
    • NEW FEATURE: Meta Central, Licenced edition only
      • Meta central will store board settings and obdata in a centalised location rather than directly with the boardview file
      • Meta Central will by default migrate existing meta files to the centralised location as you utilise the boardview files
    • Cache: Added depth control
    • Cache: Added file extension as part of the search space
    • Cache: Changed algorithm to word-token base (reverted fuzzy algorithm due to too many false hits and confusion)
    • Cache: Changed build (scan) to concurrently filter boardviews and schematics
    • Cache: Added missing .CST extension support
    • UI: Font engine adjusted to reduce GFX memory demands (sometimes causing blocks to appear instead of text)
  • April 7, 2025: 5.0710
    • NEW FEATURE: Library (Cache), Licenced edition only
      • Collates multiple boardview archive folders under a single simple search field allowing you to simply type in the partial name of the board you're seeking and a list of matches is provided instantly to select from within the File menu
      • Greatly eases the task of finding the boardfiles you have collected without having to know where in the archive you've stored them
      • You'll wonder how you ever lived without it before
    • UI: Improve disabling of board/minimap while other windows are in the front
    • UI: Wordwrap added for job and annotation notes
    • Backend: Reduce overrun frames before idling when window is not focused
    • BRD2/GR: Fix mirrored-board issue and improved pin-through detection
    • Library: Defer cache rebuild to user action instead of trying on startup (black screen of death, 5.0703)
    • Library: Load cache via separate thread on startup to prevent ~2 second black screen if there's large cache files 5.0706)
    • Library: Lock out Scan/Remove buttons on ALL library entries while a scan is being performed to ensure cache integrity
  • March 29, 2025: 5.0687
    • XZZPCB: Octogon pad support added
    • Backend: Reduce CPU consumption from part/pin hover
    • Backend: Fix issue causing RB_tree breakage with some files
    • UI: Fix excessive pin/pad select distances causing smaller parts to be unselectable
  • March 23, 2025: 5.0682
    • FEATURE: Added next/prev keys for OBData diagnostic sequencing. Defaults to ] and [
    • FEATURE: Added fast-select pin list for a given net in the sidebar under the selected net header. Feature lists all the pins (and parts) associated with the selected network. This is a rework & improvement of what was trying to be done previously with the per-part expanded listing.
    • UI: Fix broken context menu on free version
    • UI: Fix inability to use ctrl-O to open a board before a board was loaded prior
    • UI: Add missing halo-dot and part fill in single-side minimap view
    • File format BVR3: Fix pin-through/DIP pin specification export ( and import )
    • File format TVW: Fixed missing testpads
    • Backend: Converted all FP types to same type (float)
    • Backend: Optimise rendering engine
  • March 16, 2025: 5.0662
    • Themes: Retro BV theme added, old style look with FlexBV advanced features
    • UI: Rewriting of almost all dialogs to new bordered table style
    • UI: Ability to copy fields to clipboard by clicking on them for part name, net name
    • UI: Clicking on lower-right filename opens folder of file location
    • UI: Jobs database folder accessible via Jobs->Open Jobs DB Folder
    • Netweb: Netweb improvements for both main and minimap
    • Netweb: Fix netweb to ensure focus on testpoints as priority
    • File Formats: More data extracted out of ASUS FZ for part names/types
  • March 3, 2025: 5.0624
    • UI: Added all GND|NC pin parts to types that can be hidden (heatsinks, shields etc)
    • UI: Fix inverted netweb
    • UI: Fix missing netweb on net search in some situations
    • UI: Improve part-hover selection algorithm
    • UI: Fix invocation of explorer for theme and log folders on Windows
    • FileFormats: Refactoring of core file format code (BRDSide, BRDMountType, BRDOutlineType)
  • Feb 27, 2025: 5.0610
    • Updates: Fix update system to properly attempt 3 times
    • Logging: Fix crashlogs submission system
    • UI: Fix missing GND pads/drills in TVW ( were marked as NC )
    • UI: Fix Free version "version number" issue (-1)
    • UI: Add case-insensitive filters for board formats in NFD-extended picker
    • UI: Fix missing pin number when OBData turned off
    • UI: Fix inability to select part by hovering non-pin area if it was pin-through/both-sides
    • UI: Add associated part theme elements, parts that are connected to the currently selected net/pin but not the currently selected part
    • FileFormat: Make changes to GR format parsing to add x-y flipping and outline adjustment
  • Feb 19, 2025: 5.0598
    • Diagnostics: Added folder-open facility for examining logs and themes
    • Diagnostics: Changed log system to now use %data%/logs/PID.log format
    • Diganostics: Detect logs from crashed instances and offer to send them in for analysis with associated BV
    • Rendering: Fix outline bug
    • Control: Fix rotate-on-mouse-point displacement offset
  • Feb 13, 2025: 5.0585
    • Fix issue with part find feature that would crash on some special symlinks due to uncaught exception.
    • Added multiple-attempts for downloading latest package rather than exiting after initial failure.
    • More build cleanups / warning-messages
  • Feb 12, 2025: 5.0575
    • Automagic xzzpcb board splitting to provide proper top/bottom siding
    • xzzpcb splitting on/off setting added to settings
    • Discord link added to Help menu for online support / general talk
    • Many small bugs squashed
  • Feb 6, 2025: 5.0565
    • Added options to control all-NC/GND part-hiding in Settings
    • Updated online manual with new features/settings
    • Update button in bottom-left has 'Update' text added for clarity
  • Feb 5, 2025: 5.0559
    • Migrated to NativeFileDialog-Extended for file picker. Non-boardview files will now be masked out from the file list making it easier to select the correct files.
    • Added heuristic filtering to move annoying non-components to hidden status such as heatsinks and brackets which can often obscure the boardview
    • Hidden item visibility and active-status can now be toggled by 3-state eye icon on menu bar. Hovering on eye icon will provide details if any parts have been hidden
    • Increased update facility timeout limit to permit for slower connections
  • Feb 4, 2025: 5.0545
    • Compensate for "XY HTML" export issues with pad placements causing ugly overlaps and incorrect rendering
    • Work around "XY HTML" degenerate GenCAD export with pin:pad:padstack 1:1:1 ratio generation which caused in O(N3) load time
    • Bring part type/package data across from GenCAD to MfgData in pin/part display
    • Fixed Windows UTF8/WCHAR command line parameter support without requiring UTF8-beta enabled in Windows settings
  • Jan 29, 2025: 5.0535
    • Integrated update facility added for Windows and Linux versions ( macOS is going to require more time to work out signing )
    • Changed font from Roboto to NotoSC in order to support Chinese characters ( common for many boards/filenames )
    • Fixed pad-popout issues with some parts where a large round pad was specified among many other smaller pads (ie, MOSFET with trunked tab)
    • Slight optimisation in CPU consumption through improved calculation caching
    • CAE file format support added
    • Decoded & uncompressed FZ support reinstated
    • Reorganised hover-over tooltip details for pin/parts (Misc / Meta)
  • Jan 18, 2025: 5.0514

    Mostly improvements to the sidebar UI/UX in this release along with trying to streamline the apperance of many smaller items in the system. If you have any issues with the UI/UX please report them as tersely / simply as possible and preferrably a single issue at a time unless you believe they're specifically related to a bug; this style of reporting means that there's less chance of missing things that might need addressing due to swamping.

    • Filename in status/title is now cropped to just the basic filename ( hover-over to show full path)
    • Clipboard contents shown in status bar
    • Currently selected pin/part in status bar
    • Position in status bar
    • Pins on selected network shown in the sidebar and if the part has a lot of pins then the 'hits' are summarised at the top of the part table
    • Hovering over a part on the board, or hovering a pin/part in the side bar shows it in the minimap
    • Hovering over part on the board will highlight matching table in sidebar if relevant
    • Hovering over pin row in side bar will highlight pin on board
    • Hovering over pin on board will highlight sidebar pin row if relevant
    • User manual updated
    • User manual accessible via Help->Online manual
    • New version indication will appear in bottom-left corner as active link to download page
  • Dec 28, 2024: 5.0479
    • Fix zoom-crash bug caused by unclipped via/drills
  • Dec 23, 2024: 5.0474
    • Rendering improvements with holes/vias/pads on xzzpcb format
  • Nov 29, 2024: 5.0454
    • XZZ PCB support now implemented (beta)
    • More features to be added over time
  • Nov 6, 2024: 5.0436
    • FEATURE: MiniMap added. Check preferences and color preferences for configurable options
    • Zoom-in crash fix with truly obscure fault
    • macOS search combo disparity between BV and schem viewer fixed
  • Oct 12, 2024: 5.0388
    • ImGui updated to v1.91.3 which will now report UI issues/clashes
    • Ghostmark/cursor reinstated with new user-adjustable parameters
    • "Zoom Ring" feature added which creates a visual indication of the location of a part that has been selected via PDF or Infopanel search
    • Board rotation centering fixed ( previously if you rotated it only rotated by the secondary board cursor position )
    • Automatic board rotation on load to butterfly across the long board edges
    • Fix issue of tooltips persisting when cursor moved over to Infopanel
    • Network search results prioritise nucleating/spawning from a testpoint for the netweb display
  • Aug 21, 2024: 5.0373
    • ImGui upgraded to 1.91.0
    • Fixed obscure crash caused when scrolling in context menu for test pad
    • Fixed keyboard mapping configuration
    • Refreshed context menu layout (hopefully clearer)
    • Stopped imgui.ini files being saved to disk
    • Logging now moved all to flexbv.log in $USERDIR type path
  • July 30, 2024: 5.0360 ImGui upgraded to 1.90.9. Compensated for some non-sequenced GenCAD pad generations (KiCAD). Improved FZ pad naming/indexing on some files. Fixed BGA pad ordering index
  • April 27, 2024: 5.0345 Fixed Teboview decoder crash on some rare files. Upgraded ImGui to 1.90.5
  • Mar 23, 2024: 5.0339 Fixed lack of hover sensitivity near top/bottom edges of board
  • Mar 20, 2024: 5.0338 Fixed issue with FlexBV not sleeping/idling causing high CPU demand
  • Mar 20, 2024: 5.0337 Fixed obscure FZ decode bug. Improving font management (still). Improving Preferences section.
  • Mar 17, 2024: 5.0329 SVG and BVR3 Export added (File->Export). Improved font memory consumption and performance penalties. Resolved some rare crashes on board loads
  • Feb 22, 2024: 5.0315 Fix crash on zoom with some boards. Fixed empty-path issue with schematic part find
  • Feb 17, 2024: 5.0311 Removal of unused keybindings. Moved grid feature to be off by default ( turn off using Preferences->Grid / Overlay -> Grid)
  • Feb 13, 2024: Online manual for FlexBV5 now available here
  • Feb 10, 2024: 5.0305 OBData parsing issue with some locales fixed (if you get 0.000 for values). Added version-check facility ( can be disabled in Help->About )
  • Jan 30, 2024: 5.0293 Mirror issue resolved. Grid, Origin and Side display added. Board Image feature restored and fixed
  • Jan 30, 2024: 5.0280 Missing OBData edit option restored
  • Jan 28, 2024: 5.0279 Annotations and JobItem fixes
  • Dec 9, 2023: 5.0259 Small crash with TVW pdf search fixed
  • Dec 7, 2023: 5.0258 Rather severe crash issue fixed
  • Dec 5, 2023: 5.0257 Teboview silkscreen layer added for non-free versions. General improvements
  • Nov 21, 2023: 5.0247 Teboview custom pad orientation fix. Package outlines still need to be worked on.
  • Nov 20, 2023: 5.0245 Teboview decoding support added (please email any board files that fail)
  • Oct 27, 2023: 5.0217 Fixed issues causing crashing on some systems
  • Sept 1, 2023: 5.0192 Fixed issue with OBData diagnosis/repair guides being partially broken