Ok i have found that eagle 3D Is quite awesome and so are Laen PCB boards… But as many may know Eagle 3D produces green pcbs as the defualt. I had a thought and figured out a simple way to show a good representation on Laen PCB colored PCBs.
The above is a 3d Image created using the process in the below video. The below image is the actual PCB received from Laen‘s PCB Service. As a note the reason you don’t see the names like U$1 , U$2, R1, R2 etc… is because they are not on the silk layer but on the names layer. To see it just move the names to the silk layer.
As you can see its a pretty good representation of the actual PCB you will receive.
The tools you will need are:
1. Eagle (of course)
2. Eagle3D
3. POVray
This is the color information you will need.
#declare col_brd = texture{pigment{color rgb<0.16,0.11,0.21>}}
#declare col_wrs = texture{pigment{color rgb<0.18,0.13,0.23>}}
#declare col_pds = texture{pigment{color rgb<0.84,0.67,0.14>}}
#declare col_hls = texture{pigment{Black}}
#declare col_bgr = Gray50;
#declare col_slk = texture{pigment{White}}
#declare col_thl = texture{pigment{color rgb<0.84,0.67,0.14>}}
#declare col_pol = texture{pigment{color rgb<0.18,0.13,0.23>}}
Here is the video on how to create the image:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydOLR4EsW0]
Also note EAGLE 6 looks AWESOME! I cant wait until its released!