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Download the Eagle3D software and Install it. Open your board file in Eagle. Click on ‘ULP’ icon: A new window will open asking for a ‘.ulp’ file. Browse into your Eagle3D directory (where you installed it) and select the file '3d41.ulp'. Now select the language you want, and then browse for the output file. Make sure your PCB layout contain ‘dimension’ else you will get en error message: You can do this by clicking on ‘wire’ icon; select the dimension from drop down list (20) and draw a border across your layout. If every thing goes right then a new window will pop up: You can change camera angle, lights, colors etc. For now, just click on ‘create POV-File and Exit’ button. After some seconds it will ask various questions about your board components answer as best as you can. Now you will have a ‘.pov’ file. Download and Install the 32-bit version POV-Ray software . Click on the ‘Open’ file icon, and locate your .pov file created in the previous step. We need to p...

Now we’ll prepare the glass fiber. We are going to cut it a bit bigger than our design, leaving a small margin. We cut the page design, where the “Top” parts were in normal vision. We attach the page to the glass fiber with a little bit of sellotape. We choose two pads which are situated at both extremes of the design, one that is at the upper part and the other one at the other extreme end, but in the lower part. We make a hole with a hand drill in the mentioned pads. The hole should be 0.8 mm wide. We have to look carefully at the pads we have chosen, since now we have to make a small hole with a pin in the photograph paper, on the page which coincides with “Top” mirrored part and with the “Bottom” part. We now leave a photograph paper with design and we take a kitchen towel and a solvent. We remove the page which was attached to the glass fiber and we rub the copper with the kitchen towel dipped into the solvent, so that it becomes shiny on both sides. Once we have don...