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 acrylic sheet with circular saw.

Use the saw at a. Next hold the yardstick to the marked line and run the dull side of a utility knife along the yardstick to score the. How to cut a thin sheet of plexiglass. Measure the length of the acrylic you intend to cut using a ruler.

Don safety goggles and gloves for protection. 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. The saw blade height should be only a half inch higher than the thickness of the acrylic sheet you are cutting. Line the plexiglass sheet along the cut line.

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. Mark the cut line with a marker or a grease pen. 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. Measure again and mark another cut line over the tape.

Set the saw fence to the desired. The beveled tooth or crown tooth removes the material in the center of the cut while the flat top raker tooth follows behind removing material from the edges of the cut. The saw table should be free of dust and debris. 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.