Best practices, tutorials, and innovations in custom acrylic fabrication, including forming, cutting, polishing, and more.
Cast and extruded acrylic are the same polymer made two different ways, and the right choice depends on the process your part goes through. Here is how to route the decision — and when your spec should say so.
A working framework for choosing between acrylic, polycarbonate, PETG, HDPE and glass. Nine selection criteria, honest trade-offs, and decision paths for the builds B2B buyers actually spec.
Flame, buff, and diamond polishing are different processes with different results, not better and worse versions of the same thing. What each one actually does to an acrylic edge, which grades each can serve, and the one sequencing mistake that ruins bonded work.
Acrylic quality is graded by Inspection Distance — Production Finish is judged at approximately 4 feet, Display at 2 feet, Museum Archival at 1 foot. Here is what each grade permits, where each belongs, and how to specify them per surface.
A working map of how a flat acrylic sheet becomes a finished part — cutting, forming, joining, edge finishing and printing — and which published standard governs the output of each stage.
We fabricate acrylic, so believe us when we say it: for impact, cold environments, and high abuse, specify polycarbonate. Here is where each material genuinely wins, why — mechanically — and how each behaves on the shop floor.
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