Laser Cut Acrylic Gears

Wild gears are the end result of a kickstarter campaign that set out to make a newer better spirograph like product.

Laser cut acrylic gears.

The parts file is divided into two pages. Waimea mr taylor 164 views. Laser cut acrylic single piston engine model duration. 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 file is a pdf. 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. Glue together the two.

All the parts apart for the dowel pieces cut out and ready to go. Laser cut gears bike kinetic sculpture duration. I m trying to desing a reasonably complicated assembly with gears. As different laser cutters use different file.

The difficulty lies with creating the drawing for the gears. Each wild gears product is called a gear set and is laser cut from a solid sheet of acrylic. Alex cnc en 141 057 views. Each piece feels good solid crisp.

I ve done some prototyping with cutting gears from metal before although the precision was good weight was an issue. 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. Manually creating a drawing for functional gears is quite complex and time consuming. 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.

The gear sets are used to make art by putting a gear in a ring and moving it around or by making a stationary gear and moving another gear around it. Thanks to sculpteo s online services you can design your own custom gears in many materials with both 3d printing and laser cutting. The blue piece is the clear acrylic front. 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.

Mike fink 2 433 views. Wild gears is easier to use and has more pieces and options. Milling and polishing acrylic glass marble machine x conveyor belt marble carrier duration. 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.

The first laser cut is made as close to one end as possible.