5 Tips for Working with Multi Ply Acrylic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- I love working with multi ply acrylics and they can be a lot of fun. I’ll admit though, they can also be frustrating to figure out. Here are my top 5 tips for working with them. I hope it helps you!
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Good stuff Trevor. Thank you.
I’m glad it was helpful!
Great tips! Very informative.
Thanks Kevin!
Very informative video
Thank you!
Thanks for a great video and thanks for sharing your settings for the engraving. I been working on my setting for the vector cut and not happy with them. Mind sharing your cut settings. I have the fusion edge 50 watt. Thank Again.
It depends on the thickness. Usually I run 100% power and 100% frequency. Speed depends on the thickness but I would set up a test grid on a piece with different speed settings and see which one gives you the results you’re looking for.
Nice video. Thank you. I thought Epilog Laser recommends leaving the air assist on to keep the lens or mirror from getting damaged by dust. Does leaving the air assist off cause plastic dust to get on the lens or mirror?
It’s a balance. Epilog is going to recommend that because they are looking out for the machine and not the best results. Just make sure you clean them right after and you’ll be fine.
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I have the Epilog Fusion Edge. When you discuss air assist off, how do I shut the air assist off? This is different than the vacuum?
You should have a compressor that is connected to the air assist port. Just turn that compressor off and monitor the machine.
I've had the best luck having it slightly out of focus. Another advantage is it will help account for minor material warping.
Definitely, it can help a lot.
Can you do some of this on a 10 watt diode laser? I know diode can't cut white, or blue. I wanted to try the metallic looking material on black. I haven't done any acrylic yet but saw this material on another video and want to see if it's something I can work with
I’ve never tried to use a diode laser for this kind of stuff. I’d just try it and see if it works.
Hi, got the same question, any news if a 10w output diode laser can manage to angrave and cut this type of material?
Thanks in advance for a reply
I honestly don’t know as I don’t have a diode laser to try it with. I’d suggest asking someone that has a diode laser. Wish I could be more helpful.
@@MakerExperiment Thanks for the suggestion. I am actually more than a couple of months in search before buying a laser machine. If I get sorted out I will let you know.
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Thanks man.
What is 80% speed and 40% power? For speed can you provide mm/s or mm/m and for power and how many watts is your laser?
The speed on that machine I believe is 120 inches per second. This was a 60 watt machine.
Can you contour cut out the project after engraving it?
Yes. I didn’t do it in the examples but if you look at when I hold up other colors I’ve used, you’ll notice they were cut.
When you contour cut the material, the edges are getting sticky. If you do a lot of this material, Also the vectorbed is getting sticky and dirty. And this will effect following projects or need to clean the bed first. And that is a lot of work.
I do use air assist when contour cutting. To avoid the material getting burned. But then I have the problem of the mentioned dirt on this edges.
Perhaps a video specific on contour cutting this multi colour material?
@@JeroenBatavier a lot of the cutting issues you’re experiencing sounds like you either have too high a power, too low of a speed, or too high of a frequency. When you’re cutting it, you should do a test grid to figure out which settings produce the best results to get rid of the sticky edge.