In-house 300W CO2 laser at St Marys, Adelaide — 2400 × 1250 mm cutting area, acrylic (Perspex, plexiglass) up to 40 mm thick. Send us a drawing and we cut or engrave your parts from it, one part or a production run, with a clear polished edge straight off the machine.
Drop a DXF or SVG, or just type the shapes you want — rectangles and discs, any mix of colours and thicknesses. A price per item and a price for the lot, in about a minute.
Cut lettering and logos, backing panel, adhesive applied. From your DXF or SVG — no drawing? Send us what you have.
Most laser cutters you'll find advertised are hobby or sign-shop machines with a bed under a metre and forty or eighty watts behind them. Ours cuts 2400 × 1250 mm in a single piece — a full sheet goes straight on the bed, nothing has to be trimmed down first or split and joined afterwards. And 300 watts of CO2 power is what lets it go through genuinely thick acrylic, up to 40 mm, instead of stalling and melting at 10.
A full sheet goes on the bed as it comes. Large panels in one piece, or a long run of small parts nested onto a single sheet.
300 watts of CO2. Most machines advertised locally run out somewhere around 10 mm; this one keeps going to 40.
A laser polishes the acrylic as it cuts. The edge comes off the machine clear and glossy — no sanding, no buffing, no extra cost.
Both on the same machine. Cut the shape and engrave the detail — lettering, logos, scales, panel markings — in one operation, without moving the part.
The same laser engraves as well as cuts, so a part can be cut to shape and marked in the one operation rather than sent somewhere else afterwards.
Acrylic and a CO2 laser suit each other better than almost any other material and machine pairing. The beam vaporises the acrylic rather than tearing at it, which is why the edge comes out transparent instead of chalky.
People ask us for laser cutting plastic of every kind, and the honest answer is that a laser is the right tool for acrylic and the wrong one for most other sheet plastics. Not every plastic belongs in a laser, and it is worth knowing before you send a job. The ones that do not go on our CNC router instead, in the same workshop, and we quote whichever machine suits the part.
| Material | Laser? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Acrylic (Perspex) | Yes | What the machine is for. Cuts clean, polishes its own edge, engraves well. |
| Polycarbonate | No | Discolours and burns at the cut. We saw or CNC rout it instead. |
| PVC and foam PVC | No | Gives off chlorine when lasered — bad for the operator and it corrodes the machine. Sawn or routed only. |
| HDPE and polypropylene | No | Melts and strings at the cut rather than vaporising, so the edge is rough and the part warps. Routed. |
If your part is better suited to the saw or the router, we will say so and quote it that way — we do all three under one roof, so there is nothing to gain by pushing a job onto the wrong machine.
A vector drawing is ideal, but a dimensioned sketch is enough to start. Upload it on the quote page and we come back with a price.