Laser Cut Acrylic Gears

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Laser cut acrylic gears. I am not familiar with laser rental rates but actual laser time to make each cut of an acrylic rod is no more than a few seconds. This process for manufacturing the gears provides unsurpassed gear precision and materials quality which leads to gears that work better and designs that are smoother. Laser cut gears bike kinetic sculpture duration. I am fortunate to be able to use rods up to 8 long but if the laser you use handles smaller sizes you can cut them to a length that fits with whatever saw you have available without worrying about how accurate that cut is.
Gears with a laser cutter even the complex profiles of involute gears are easy to cut once you have a vector drawing for the gears you want to create. As different laser cutters use different file. I need to keep the gears as light as possible without losing much from the accuracy i do have relatively small gears i m using a tooth size of. Each wild gears product is called a gear set and is laser cut from a solid sheet of acrylic.
Milling and polishing acrylic glass marble machine x conveyor belt marble carrier duration. The first laser cut is made as close to one end as possible. Mike fink 2 433 views. Alex cnc en 141 057 views.
Manually creating a drawing for functional gears is quite complex and time consuming. The parts file is divided into two pages. Wild gears is easier to use and has more pieces and options. All the parts apart for the dowel pieces cut out and ready to go.
Glue together the two. Thanks to sculpteo s online services you can design your own custom gears in many materials with both 3d printing and laser cutting. Laser cutting gears that fit your needs usually gears are manufactured by net shaping molding with metal or plastic powders or by traditional machining techniques. The file is a pdf.
Each gear set is made from one solid sheet of acrylic that is laser cut to produce gears and rings. The first problem faced was when producing gears. The gears in question are cut out of mdf board which is readily usable on all but the feeblest lasercutters you ll find in the average makerspace. Laser cut acrylic single piston engine model duration.
Each piece feels good solid crisp. Laser cut display gears step 1. I ve done some prototyping with cutting gears from metal before although the precision was good weight was an issue. The blue piece is the clear acrylic front.
The difficulty lies with creating the drawing for the gears.