Heat forming etched acrylic

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I did this a while ago.

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This is filed in the ‘Huh, I didn’t think that was going to work’ category. I wanted to try my hand in thermoforming. The idea was to cut out a pattern or a raster and ‘soften’ the acrylic around a form to create a bracelet for my wife with the following items. A Powder coat oven. A Bowl. A (Empty) Beer bottle. A Glowforge. As always this adventure starts out in Fusion 360 and a Woodchuck (Beer). I made a couple repeating patterns then cut them out. Since the end result was basically was g…