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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image generation is crucial to SAR image interpretation when sufficient image samples are unavailable. Against this background, a method for SAR image generation of three-dimensional (3D) target is proposed in this paper. Specifically, this method contains three steps. Firstly, according to the system parameters, the echo signal in the two-dimensional (2D) time domain is generated, based on which 2D Fast Fourier Transform (2DFFT) is performed. Secondly, the hybrid moments (MoM)-large element physical optics (LEPO) method is used to calculate the scattering characteristics with the certain frequency points and incident angles according to the system parameters. Finally, range Doppler algorithm (RDA) is adopted to process the signal in the 2D-frequency domain with radar cross section (RCS) exported from electromagnetic calculations. These procedures combine RCS computations by FKEO solver and RDA to simulate raw echo signal and then generate SAR image samples for different squint angles and targets with reduced computational load, laying foundations for transmit waveform design, SAR image interpretation and other SAR related work.