How To Cut Acrylic Sheet With Cricut Maker

How to engrave acrylic with the cricut maker.

How to cut acrylic sheet with cricut maker. But there are some things you need to be aware of. For now the maximum thickness appears to be 0 020 mm for a good cut through. Cricut explore maker machines are not food safe and cannot cut fondant or similar materials. You can actually engrave and cut acrylic on the cricut maker.

To cut acrylic you will need to have the knife blade but from there it s like cake. This video is about cricut maker engraving tool with acrylic join carole s cricut crafts on facebook to get my files. The cricut machine does not have an acrylic setting so we are experimenting a bit here. 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.

I bet at this point youre ready to hear about how to cut acrylic sheets for keychains with your cricut maker. Can you cut acrylic with a cricut maker. If you are using a classic cricut machine cut the plastic to 6 inches by 12 inches. Just follow the instructions below.

This tutorial will show you how to cut vinyl using cricut design space which is the cricut design software used for all newer cricut models cricut explore explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker if you have an older cricut machine that uses cricut craft room the software looks different from design space but the basics are the same. Grab your acrylic and start engraving all the things. If you find other settings that work please share them with the group. You can find the blade and cut settings of what i used to cut my sheets below.

The engraving tool for cricut is wonderful. For a cricut expression machine the plastic can be up to 12 inches by 24 inches depending on the mat you re using. It can work on many different materials such as acetate aluminum sheets 0 5 mm faux leather paper thin foil poster board genuine leather glitter cardstock and more it also works well on 1 16 acrylic and i found these awesome night lights that will display the piece perfectly. This post has a video that might help.

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. Step 2 insert the cartridge you re cutting with into the machine. Place the keypad overlay on the machine. Now it is time for the big question.

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