Laser cutting rubber soft and warm and still accurate the broad variety of rubbers will give your product the level of comfort and professional look that you were looking for and couldn t find with other materials.
Can you laser cut rubber sheet.
Here below is a laser marking engraving video display on the silicone rubber wristbands for reference.
Large scale commercial neoprene cutting operations use high intensity laser to cut multiple layers at the same time.
In fact the pattern on the heart in our featured image was laser cut onto the leather.
Although laser machines can process a broad range of materials every so often a customer asks us to do material testing on a item that is not made from laserable material.
Cutting pvc is discouraged to save lungs not the optics.
While you might associate laser cutting more with wood or plastic you can use a laser cutter for fabric paper metal and more.
Laser rubber can be engraved on either side.
Laser cutting rubber or elastomeric materials often produces slightly charred melted or burnt edges.
Depending on the application material and tolerance needed this may or may not be acceptable.
We find the results are a lot more eye catching when printed in colour but if your laser machine allows it you can engrave the monsters instead.
Considerations for laser cut gaskets.
Materials you should not process with a laser machine.
Though any material cut that gives of lots of smoke can cloud and reduce power if they re not purged.
If you decide on this option use the following laser parameters.
Rubber can easily cut by laser.
A laser cutting machine transfers a pre programmed design onto whatever material you re using.
Consideration should be given to edge quality when selecting laser cutting for gaskets.
About laser cutting on silicone rubber there may cause some burning at the edge and make silicone rubber look not nice.
Rubber can easily be cut and engraved by our laser cutting m.
Alternatively you can engrave the graphics onto your material instead of printing.
When vector cutting this material be sure to use a vented cutting table.
If you would like to use silicon rubber draft your file so that your art board matches the standard sheet size of 900mm x 600mm.
So we suggest using the traditional ways cutting the silicone rubber.
See the drawing guidelines for more on setting up a file for laser cutting engraving.
Certain types of material should not be engraved or laser with a laser because of their chemical make up.
Drawing templates are not currently available for this material.
