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@AlexeyInwerp AlexeyInwerp released this 04 Sep 15:48
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v0.37.1 — 2026-09-04

Diode-mode reference readings now come through on the current generation of XZZ
boardviews, and there is a way to actually read them on a dense board.

Formats

  • XZZ .pcb: diode values on newer boardviews. XZZ stores its diode table
    after the v6v6555v6v6 marker, and BoardRipper only understood the older of
    the two encodings that live there — newline-delimited =<mV>=PART(pin)
    records. Current deliveries (the iPhone-era files) put a JSON document there
    instead, so every one of them reported no readings at all. Both encodings are
    now read, chosen by content rather than by file name.

    On iPhone16_16Plus AP+BB Boardview.pcb that is 4750 readings where there
    were none, landing on 4195 pins. Its sibling …AP+BB YiDianTong.pcb is the
    same board delivered without diode data, and still correctly shows none —
    worth knowing if you have both, because the difference is in the file, not in
    the viewer.

    The JSON tail also carries the rename tables XZZ's own viewer applies, so two
    further things follow. Pin identifiers are no longer restricted to digits,
    which means BGA readings (M7, L9) can be represented at all. And parts a
    file named by internal id (C356_1) now show their real designator
    (C11814) — 2297 of them on the YiDianTong file. Net names get the same
    treatment where a file provides them. Neither rename will ever merge two
    parts, or two nets, into one name.

    Spec: docs/formats/XZZ_FORMAT.md.

Board view

  • Net names can be turned off. They join pin numbers as their own toggle,
    in the sidebar's View tab and in Settings ▸ Board ▸ Pins. On a dense part the
    net name is usually what is covering everything else.

  • Diode-only mode. The diode button on the board overlay now has a third
    state: off → on → only. In "only", a pin shows its reading and nothing
    else — no pin number, no net name, and no designator for single-pin
    testpoints, which are drawn directly on the pin and were the worst of the
    clutter (half the parts on an iPhone board are single-pin). Designators on
    part bodies stay, so the board is still navigable.

    Your own pin-number and net-name settings are left untouched while the mode
    is on and come back when you leave it. It is also considerably faster: on a
    dense area of iPhone16_16Plus the label count falls from 23 182 to 6535.

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