How To Cut Plastic Sheet At Home

This video shows how to easily cut acrylic sheet such as perspex lucite plexiglas optix oroglas acrylite sumipex cryolite etc.

How to cut plastic sheet at home. Set the polycarbonate material on a cutting platform as described in step 3 above. Use acrylic jigsaw blades to cut acrylic with a jigsaw. Place the sheet over hard edge with groove side up. However the process requires following steps.

Acrylic sheet larger than the size of your project. Once you ve scored the initial line go over it a few times with the blade until a groove forms. 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.

Use a 10 plastic cutting saw blade to cut acrylic on a miter saw or table saw. Use the saw at a slower speed or keep the material cool by spraying water over the cut point during the saw operation. Cutting thin sheets of plastic secure the sheet to a large work surface with a clamp. You can easily cut thin plastic sheets less than 1 16 inch 063 thick with a utility knife.

To cut acrylic sheets start by marking the line you want to cut using a ruler and a permanent marker. Fit a circular saw or table saw with a fine blade with crosscut teeth to prevent chipping the piece during the cut. Line the plexiglass sheet along the cut line. Mark your desired cut line using a straight edge then score the sheet of plastic with the utility knife making several.

Harder clear plastics such as polycarbonate may require multiple passes with a knife but the result will be a clean cut finished edge with no chips or cracks. Then score the line using a plastic scoring blade using the ruler as a guide so your line is straight. Clamp the plexiglass sheet to the work surface for stability. Install a metal cutting blade into the saw with at least 10 teeth per inch of blade.

Use a plastic laminate scorer to cut acrylic by hand. Most saws can be used t. Clamp the sheet if. Use the hand held jig saw to cut curves in the plastic sheeting.