I use the following cli options to display the board mirrored and rotated: -r, --rotate=<degree> Set initial orientation for all layers. -m, --mirror=<axis> Set initial mirroring axis (X or Y). Did you try them?</axis></degree> For example, to see the board up-side-down (flipped along y-axis) and rotated 90 deg: $ gerbv -my -r90 -p Gerber/gerbv.gvp &