Acrylic is a versatile plastic which can be easily cut with saws and laser cutters can be bent and molded through heating and the best part is it comes in a ton of cool colors and finishes.
Laser cut acrylic sheet art.
Its high level of accuracy and detail repeatability and consistency mean laser cutting tech is hugely popular.
Tim shows me how to use a laser cutter to make clean cuts from an adobe illustrator file in acrylic plexiglass.
Trotec laser offers an acrylic or metal cutting table option for your laser.
Anything cut on the laser will have a fine polished edge.
The acrylic cutting table is essential to a high quality flame polish cut.
We cut acrylic sheets measuring up to 1500mm x 2000mm up to a maximum of 20mm thick.
A computer directs this laser to follow the cutting line provided in your digital design.
Cast acrylic in its sheet form is manufactured by mixing the liquid acrylic between two glass plates and is considered the higher quality product.
Acrylic sheet 1 piece select color and size 0 118 inch thick 1 8 inches plexiglass sheet plastic sheet acrylic square plexiglass lucite green translucent 12 x 12 inch 5 0 out of 5 stars 2 10 11 10.
This video was taken at the james madison u.
Cutting acrylic is usually best achieved with relatively slow speed and high power.
This cutting process allows the laser beam to melt the edges of the acrylic and essentially produce a flame polished edge.
Welcome to my little acrylic shop we import and sell a variety of flat sheet materials which can be used for anything that you envision my little acrylic shop is a branch off our laser cutting and engraving service vector etch we commonly use all of the materials that you see available here for laser cutting and engraving typically working with jewellery makers and designers.
The high precision laser vaporizes a cut line through the acrylic leaving a 90 degree high quality cut edge finish.
Check out these projects with acrylic to see what you can.
We can also cut frosted clear and tinted acrylic with our high power precision co2 laser.
Today there are a several acrylic manufacturers who produce a variety of both cast and extruded acrylics that feature different colors textures and patterns.
