Cutting styrene with a vinyl plotter
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I have done it with mine and it works great as a scribe and snap. I am not sure what the thickness was but I know it was over .10
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MonsieurTox
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I know REL uses to do that and he gets outstanding result !
I dont think you can cut more than 0.5mm styrene though !
I dont think you can cut more than 0.5mm styrene though !
Jack Knight1979
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I own a vinyl business and plotter/cutters are not setup to cut anything more than paper thin sheets of vinyl. If you can scribe you should be fine, but some of them run 5k and not worth trying.
Get a 300 dollar cutter off ebay and go to town.
Get a 300 dollar cutter off ebay and go to town.
You can cut thin styrene with the plotter set on about 300 lbs of downforce. But for thicker stuff, it will score it pretty deep, then you can snap it out, or finish the cut with a xacto.
I've found you don't want it to actually cut the styrene out as the results aren't as nice as just cutting it halfway through. But you can put a sheet of styrene in, load your file, and it will cut out all the designs.
I used that technique extensively on the K'tinga for all the complex panels from files I received from Charles Adams.
I've found you don't want it to actually cut the styrene out as the results aren't as nice as just cutting it halfway through. But you can put a sheet of styrene in, load your file, and it will cut out all the designs.
I used that technique extensively on the K'tinga for all the complex panels from files I received from Charles Adams.
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