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Finishes
White Acrylic Black Acrylic
(White Detail) (Black Detail)

Price

Transparent
Acrylic
(Transparent
Detail)

$2.50 handling fee

$2.99 per cm3

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Design Guidelines for Acrylic Plastic

The rules to follow in order to create successful products in Acrylic Plastic. Read more on model checks

Max bounding box

250 250 200 mm

For us to be able to make a product, each of its pieces must t within these dimensions.
For Acrylic Plastic, the maximum bounding box is determined by the size of the printer we use to create your product.
To ensure the successful creation of your product, make sure the bounding box ts within our maximum limit. If it does not, you
can try scaling it down, removing unnecessary features to reduce the bounding box, or considering another material with a bigger
maximum bounding box.

Min bounding box

2.5 2.5 1.0 mm

For us to be able to make a product, each of its pieces must be bigger than these dimensions.
For Acrylic Plastic, the minimum bounding box is determined by the printer's ability to successfully print very tiny products.
To ensure the successful creation of your product, make sure the bounding box of your product is larger than our minimum. If it is
not, you can try scaling it up, thickening, combining, or enlarging parts and features, or consider a material with a smaller minimum
bounding box.

Min supported wall

thickness

1.0 mm

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A supported wall is one connected to other walls on two or more sides.

For Acrylic Plastic, the minimum supported wall is determined by our ability to successfully clean your product once it has been
removed from the printer. Walls that are too thin will break when the semi-solid support material is removed from the product with
a waterjet blaster.
To ensure the successful creation of your product, make sure the supported walls in your product are thicker than the minimum
requirement. If they are not, try making them thicker, or consider a material with a thinner minimum supported wall requirement.

Min unsupported
wall thickness

1.0 mm

An unsupported wall is one connected to other walls on less than two sides.
For Acrylic Plastic, the minimum unsupported wall is determined by our ability to successfully clean your product once it has been
removed from the printer. Walls that are too thin will break when the semi-solid support material is removed from the product with
a waterjet blaster.
To ensure the successful creation of your product, make sure the unsupported walls in your product are thicker than the minimum
requirement. If they are not, try making them thicker, adding supports, or considering a material with a thinner minimum
unsupported wall requirement.

Min supported
wires

1.0 mm

A wire is a feature whose length is greater than two times its width. A supported wire is connected to walls on both sides.
For Acrylic Plastic, the minimum supported wire is determined by our ability to successfully clean your product once it has been
removed from the printer. Wires that are too thin will break when the semi-solid support material is removed from the product with
a waterjet blaster.
To ensure the successful creation of your product, make sure the supported wires in your product are thicker than the minimum
requirement. If they are not, try making them thicker, or consider a material with a thinner minimum supported wire requirement.

Min unsupported
wires

1.0 mm

A wire is a feature whose length is greater than two times its width. An unsupported wire is connected to walls on less than two
sides.
For Acrylic Plastic, the minimum unsupported wire is determined by our ability to successfully clean your product once it has been
removed from the printer. Wires that are too thin will break when the semi-solid support material is removed from the product with
a waterjet blaster.
To ensure the successful creation of your product, make sure the unsupported wires in your product are thicker than the minimum
requirement. If they are not, try making them thicker, adding supports, or considering a material with a thinner minimum
unsupported wire requirement.

Min embossed
detail

0.2 mm high & wide

A detail is a feature whose length is less than twice its width. Embossed details stick out from a surface.
For Acrylic Plastic, the minimum detail is determined by the printer's resolution. When detail dimensions are below the minimum,
the printer may not be able to accurately replicate them.
To ensure details come out clearly, make them larger than the indicated minimum. We may refrain from printing products with
details smaller than the minimum, since the nal product will not be true to your design. If your product has details smaller than the
minimum, try making them larger, removing them, or considering a material with ner detail.

Min engraved detail

0.2 mm high & wide

A detail is a feature whose length is less than twice its width. Engraved or debossed details go into a surface.
For Acrylic Plastic, the minimum detail is determined by the printer's resolution. When detail dimensions are below the minimum,

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the printer may not be able to accurately replicate them.
To ensure details come out clearly, make them larger than the indicated minimum. We may refrain from printing products with
details smaller than the minimum, since the nal product will not be true to your design. If your product has details smaller than the
minimum, try making them larger, removing them, or considering a material with ner detail.

Min escape holes

10 mm . Bigger models should have bigger escape holes.

Escape holes allow unbuilt material inside hollow products to be removed.

When printing in Acrylic Plastic, hollow parts of your product are lled in by a semi-solid material which must be removed before we
ship it. While a good deal of this material comes o without any issues, the rest must be scraped away manually with a scalpel.
To ensure the successful creation of your product, make sure that hollow sections include suciently large escape holes so that
these cavities can be cleaned out. If they do not, try adding more escape holes, enlarging existing ones, or lling in the hollow
section.
A single escape hole at the end of a cavity will not allow material in the corners near the escape hole to
fully escape. So we recommend multiple escape holes at both ends of the cavity.

Clearance

2.0 mm clearance

Clearance is the space between any two parts, walls or wires.

Acrylic Plastic is printed in acrylic plastic with a waxy support material, which is then broken o by hand and with a scalpel. When
the clearance between parts or features is too small, it becomes impossible to successfully clean out the support material.
To ensure the successful creation of your product, make the clearance between parts, walls, and wires greater than the indicated
minimum. If your clearance is too small, try making the gap bigger, or consider fusing the parts or features if their independence is
unnecessary. You can also try a material with a smaller minimum clearance.

Finishes
Interlocking and
enclosed parts?

Yes.
White Acrylic Black Acrylic Transparent
Acrylic
Plastic(Black
is printed
acrylic plastic with a waxy support material, which is then broken o by hand and with a scalpel. This
(White Detail)
Detail)in Acrylic
enables interlocking parts, (Transparent
as long as the clearance is greater than the indicated minimum.
Detail)

Multiple parts per

model le?

Yes.

Accuracy

0.1 mm

More On Designing for Acrylic Plastic

Ensure your model can be cleaned

Design tips

Hard to clean models will be rejected, here's why. During printing, the cavities in your model will be
supported by a waxy material which must then be removed before we ship it. While a good deal of
this material comes o without any issues, the rest must be scraped away manually with a scalpel. If
you design a model with cavities that make such scraping dicult, then unfortunately we cannot
produce this model.
A good rule of thumb is that if it can't be cleaned with a scalpel the size of a ball point pen, it will most likely be rejected
and require a redesign.
Transparent Acrylic is translucent, but can be clearer when polished
The Transparent Acrylic will actually arrive with a translucent nish. With hand polishing, however, a yellow transparency
can be achieved. Please note, this material is brittle so the thinner you make the model, the more dicult it will be to

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polish without breaking your model.

Material Info
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Acrylic Plastic

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Overview

Design guidelines

Material info

Examples

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Acrylic Plastic is an acrylic-based photopolymer that comes in white, black and transparent. We recommend using this
material for smaller, detailed products that don't face high stress or heat. The level of detail for these products is high, but
individual layers are more visible than in Strong & Flexible plastics.

Handling and care

This material
is watertight
not foodsafe
not recyclable
not dishwasher safe
Acrylic plastic is heatproof to 48C / 118.4F degrees. Higher temperatures may signicantly change material properties.

What Others Are Creating With Acrylic Plastic

Hobbyist Projects
Kitchen And Bath HO scale

Tyrannosaurus rex 1/72

for White Detail Plastic in

Krentz in White Acrylic

White Acrylic

Kitchen And Bath HO scale for

White Detail Plastic

H6K Mavis

Tyrannosaurus rex 1/72 Krentz

$13.07 by miniatures

$50.32 by dkrentz

$28.99 by dcyale

Disclaimer:
Please note that the 3D printed products are intended for decorative purposes. They are not suited to be used as toys or to be given to underage children. The products should
not come into contact with electricity and be kept away from heat. Our materials, except for Porcelain, are not food safe.

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