Once you try your hand at it you will soon realize that it gets easy and easier to start producing your own piece.
How to laser cut acrylic jewelry.
To achieve a polished finish on cut acrylic it is best to use cast acrylic not extruded acrylic.
Trotec laser offers an acrylic or metal cutting table option for your laser.
The acrylic cutting table is essential to a high quality flame polish cut.
The high precision laser vaporizes a cut line through the acrylic leaving a 90 degree high quality cut edge finish.
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A computer directs this laser to follow the cutting line provided in your digital design.
So how do you laser cut acrylic.
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In order to generate heat in the cut consider using a longer focal length lens 2 5 or 4.
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You will need to run at high power low speed 4 8mm s and have the air assist on a low level.
When cutting acrylic on a metal cutting bed the laser energy may hit the metal cutting bed and bounce back into the material causing divots or vertical marks along the cut line.
Laser cutting is a subtractive manufacturing technology that uses a high power laser beam to cut flat sheet materials such as acrylic.
