On Wednesday 20 September 2006 07:17, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> >So the DRC is not telling you that something is wrong? Actually,
> >I have heared that there is a PCB designer that is capable of
> >generating a 3D image of the board -- just like an architectural
> >CAD software. That might helpful to realize such problems :-)
>
> I think someone has done an add-on for Eagle to do this by exporting an
> image to Gimp. Don't have the details, sorry, but seem to remember it being
> discussed on this list in the past.

It exports the image to a POV file, which then renders the 3D image.  I've 
used it in the past, and it's very nice/useful, though I haven't yet taken 
the time to learn how to create my own 3D parts models.  
http://www.matwei.de/doku.php

Cheers,
-Neil.
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