NOTE: You will need a purchased licence with your email, TXN_ID, and key to activate these downloads.
You can purchase a never-expiring licence
here for $179 USD.
FlexBV R1328+ Features
| OpenBoardData integration |
Community collective data project for providing board level measurements. Multimeter data capture also supported from supported meters |
| Improved international character support |
Filenames/paths with extended characters supported, including Windows UTF16 |
| macOS 10.13 HighSierra base-level shift |
The baseline macOS support has been moved from Yosemite to HighSierra in order to support the new features |
FlexBV R1197+ Features
| Improved shape rendering |
Two pad parts such as caps, resistors, and diode are now rendered with rectangular pads for more realism |
| Part colour assignments |
Parts can now be coloured based on their type; allows for easier differentiation between caps, resistors and diodes etc |
FlexBV R1145+ (unstable) Features
| Improved Part Find facility |
Part find search facility has been greatly improved and now works more reliably with multiple parameter search |
FlexBV R1127+ (unstable) Features
| Support for OpenBoardData |
OpenBoardData is a diagnostics overlay dataset providing diode, voltage and resistance readings for various boards. |
FlexBV R1115+ New Features
| Support for BVRe formatted files added |
BVR files with the header BVR3E001 signature |
| Licence file import option |
Too alleviate keyboard/international differences, FlexBV will now generate a downloadable licence file that can be loaded, rather than typed in |
FlexBV R1024+ New Features
| Butterfly View |
See both sides of the board simultaniously, including the netweb spanning across both, making it easier to visualise the connections between the parts. |
| macOS Retina Support |
Take advantage of the high DPI screens provided with Macbooks for crisper rendering of boards and schematics |
| User defined keys |
Configure FlexBV to use the keys you prefer for most functions. |
| Colour themes |
Create your own PCB colour themes, it's now easy with the new Colour preferences menu to make PCBs look more how you want |
| More file formats supported |
It is now possible to read common EDA tool export formats, meaning you can create and share boardviews for other people working on production jobs
- FAB / Fabricator / Fabmaster : Eagle, Allegro
- HYP / Hyperlynx : Eagle, OrCAD
- CAD / GenCAD : KiCAD
- ODB / Compact ODB++ (single file, there's a lot of options for this format, not all supported)
- PCB / PCBDOC : Altium Designer, Protel 99 ASCII
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| PDF Copy-paste supported for searching |
Easier now to search for what you're looking for |
| PDF Internal-search of existing item (ctrl + right click) |
Lets you search for other occurences of a string occurence within the PDF without having to manually type in the search text or jump from the Boardview |
