How To Cut Acrylic Sheet With Circular Saw

Materials needed to cut acrylic or plexiglass sheets acrylic sheet larger than the size of your project use a plastic laminate scorer to cut acrylic by hand use acrylic jigsaw blades to cut acrylic with a jigsaw use a 10 plastic cutting saw blade to cut acrylic on a miter saw or table saw use a 7.

How to cut acrylic sheet with circular saw.

Fit a circular saw or table saw with a fine blade with crosscut teeth to prevent chipping the piece during the cut. How to cut a thin sheet of plexiglass. Don safety goggles and gloves for protection. The saw blade height should be only a half inch higher than the thickness of the acrylic sheet you are cutting.

Use the saw at a. Lay the sheet on a flat surface and using a yardstick and a permanent marker or a grease marker measure and draw the line you wish to cut. Next hold the yardstick to the marked line and run the dull side of a utility knife along the yardstick to score the. Line the plexiglass sheet along the cut line.

Cutting plexiglass can result in splinters or shards that can pose a. Set the saw fence to the desired. The plexiglas sheets have thicknesses that vary from 1 mm to 20 mm which is why we will adapt the cutting method according to the desired thickness. For cutting acrylic the teeth of the saw blade should have the triple chip design where the cutting edge of every other tooth is beveled.

Cover your cut line by spearing a tape directly through it. The saw table should be free of dust and debris. Measure the length of the acrylic you intend to cut using a ruler. The only disadvantage that i see and you too will encounter that is the heat the plexiglass has a poor temperature resistance the thing that we will take into consideration when cutting plexiglass with circular saw or with any other tool.