Laser Cut Acrylic Gears

Manually creating a drawing for functional gears is quite complex and time consuming.

Laser cut acrylic gears.

As different laser cutters use different file. Glue together the two. Waimea mr taylor 164 views. Laser cut gears bike kinetic sculpture duration.

Mike fink 2 433 views. Thanks to sculpteo s online services you can design your own custom gears in many materials with both 3d printing and laser cutting. Each wild gears product is called a gear set and is laser cut from a solid sheet of acrylic. Each gear set is made from one solid sheet of acrylic that is laser cut to produce gears and rings.

All the parts apart for the dowel pieces cut out and ready to go. 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. The first laser cut is made as close to one end as possible. Laser cut display gears step 1.

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. Laser cut acrylic single piston engine model duration. The parts file is divided into two pages. Wild gears are the end result of a kickstarter campaign that set out to make a newer better spirograph like product.

Alex cnc en 141 057 views. 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. Wild gears is easier to use and has more pieces and options. 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 first problem faced was when producing gears. 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. The blue piece is the clear acrylic front. I m trying to desing a reasonably complicated assembly with gears.

I ve done some prototyping with cutting gears from metal before although the precision was good weight was an issue. The file is a pdf. Each piece feels good solid crisp. 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.

The difficulty lies with creating the drawing for the gears.