I am trying to cut 3mm clear acrylic but all I am getting is some burn through on the material under any advice on how I can cut it? Tried using masking tape - that gets cut on both sides but not the acrylic
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In order to be cut, a material has to absorb the energy from the laser. If the material appears transparent to energy at the lasers wavelength then the energy just passes through and the material is unharmed.
I don’t think you’re going to be cutting much clear acrylic with light at 450nm. The light just goes right through without being absorbed.
I do remember seeing some guy having some coating (that he peeled off after the cut) and he was cutting clear Acrylic… time to hit youtube again
He was talking about having the right backing so that the laser bounces and the heat gives you a good cut
Was he cutting with a diode laser? Or was he cutting with a CO2 laser and the coating was just masking to keep from fouling the acrylic surface with condensed vapor and molten junk?
AFAIK, clear acrylic can’t be cut with a 450nm laser. But that doesn’t mean it’s not possible, just that I don’t know…
If you do find a vid of someone cutting clear acrylic with an inexpensive diode laser please post it!
There’s still many things in this world that I don’t know, and I’m always up for learning something new.
any advice on how I can cut it? Tried using masking tape - that gets cut on both sides but not the acrylic 
