hey gang, I’ve only ever engraved to make an edge lit acrylic “light”.
do you get a decent effect with just scoring?
I was just wondering about that.
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Yes, but it has to be deep to catch the light.
Think “Nixie tube” type effects.
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gotcha. I can split the design a little bit. and Score the top half deeper. on my engraves I had done a gradient fill in the past.
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Actually, the simpler solution to a “gradient score” is to simply lift up the edge closest to the light source a little, and set focus manually to a workable compromise. When I did it, I think I set the focus to the lowest point, which was the part closest to the light strip. I am certain I used 1/8" material to lift up that side of the 1/8" acrylic.
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Interesting approach, thanks for the heads up!
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I’ve had great results with scoring. Here’s a gift set I made for a friend a while back. (The Labyrinth acrylic is engraved, but all others are scored.)
There’s a post about the method I used here:
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Mine were fine line scores, I’ve never used them for “solid area” effect like above, and I like that.
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Very nice. They all look fabulous.
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Those turned out terrific. Scoring it is!!!
will save a lot of time too. a huge benefit because I’m sucking heated air out of the house. 
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Whoa – never thought to try that method. Very nice!
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I think the method may be a bit more complicated than it needs to be. Custom engrave settings can do essentially the same thing.
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Yeah, that would effectively be the same thing.
I made some really fine “grids” using a super-low DPI engrave. I shared them here, wish I could find them…
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Something like this?
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