How To Cut Acrylic Sheet In Round Shape

Drilling holes in acrylic.

How to cut acrylic sheet in round shape.

Score again and again as many as 10 or 12 times. Place the acrylic sheet on top of the rigid foam insulation and mark the line to be cut. Mark the area of sheet you want to cut. Use scoring knife to cut a narrow groove in the acrylic sheeting scoring preferably works on sheets less than 6 35mm in thickness.

Place the sheet over hard edge with groove side up. Most saws can be used t. I recommend using a circular saw jig or a circular saw guide to keep your cuts straight and to prevent the blade from wandering. Use the saw at a slower speed or keep the material cool by spraying water over the cut point during the saw operation.

Install a 7 1 4 plastic cutting saw blade in the circular saw. Clamp the plexiglass sheet to the work surface for stability. Fit a circular saw or table saw with a fine blade with crosscut teeth to prevent chipping the piece during the cut. Use a forstner bit to cut circles up to three inches in diameter.

This video shows how to easily cut acrylic sheet such as perspex lucite plexiglas optix oroglas acrylite sumipex cryolite etc. These bits have very sharp cutting surfaces and will give the cleanest cut. To cut acrylic sheets start by marking the line you want to cut using a ruler and a permanent marker. Next hold the yardstick to the marked line and run the dull side of a utility knife along the yardstick to score the.

Then score the line using a plastic scoring blade using the ruler as a guide so your line is straight. Lay the sheet on a flat surface and using a yardstick and a permanent marker or a grease marker measure and draw the. Line the plexiglass sheet along the cut line.