How To Cut Acrylic Sheet With Cricut

Just follow the instructions below.

How to cut acrylic sheet with cricut.

Cricut explore maker machines are not food safe and cannot cut fondant or similar materials. You can find the blade and cut settings of what i used to cut my sheets below. But there are some things you need to be aware of. How to cut acrylic sheets for keychains with your cricut maker.

Can the cricut maker cut acrylic. This post has a video that might help. Cutting acrylic adds a new dimension to your projects and as time goes on there may be a new way to cut thicker materials as cricut continues to make improvements on what their machines can do. How to engrave acrylic with the cricut maker.

For now the maximum thickness appears to be 0 020 mm for a good cut through. You can actually engrave and cut acrylic on the cricut maker. As the machine is cutting here is where the babysitting comes in you ll need to watch it cut and ensure that the front edge of the acrylic sheet doesn t lift up off the mat and butt into the housings this will jam your cricut machine. Finally place the line you scored over the edge of a table and press down on the part of the acrylic that s hanging off of the table to break it off.

It doesn t do a bunch of passes like cutting through thick materials. And it engraves pretty quickly. I bet at this point youre ready to hear about how to cut acrylic sheets for keychains with your cricut maker. Next repeat on the opposite side of the acrylic sheet over the same line.

Now it is time for the big question. To learn how to cut acrylic by sawing it scroll down. Unfortunately you can t cut acrylic with the cricut maker but acrylic engraving works perfectly. The nice thing about using your cricut maker is that you can design anything and have it engraved on an acrylic sheet.

Select a machine from the tabs below to view a list of materials with settings in design space that can be cut by your machine the chart also includes recommended blade type cutting pressure and multi cut settings. Before you get started cutting acrylic there are a few tips and tricks for you to know. You can simply lift the end of the cricut mat closest to you up to ensure the mat and acrylic. Grab your acrylic and start engraving all the things.

Or grab the project. The cricut machine does not have an acrylic setting so we are experimenting a bit here.