Laser Welding of Acrylic

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I saw this video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puDD_CrVH7g and several ideas came to mind for trophies and moving items without using acrylic glues and acetone. We have a height limit, but could I stack layers for multiple cuts and weld?

This capability seems like a beauty for the Glowforge if the functionality can be added someday with manual methods initially.

Thoughts?

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Yeah this video is awesome! here is a post of this video a while back with another great link from hackaday.

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This will be awesome! It should be doable with the glowforge, as long as the stack is withing the 0.5" (the range of the focus lens). I don’t know if the function will be build into the glowforge, but I could see some design catalog projects that could use this in the design.

Here is another topic with a bunch of cool ideas.

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Since this thread is still very short we have an opportunity to shift all the discussion about this topic to the other thread(s). Let’s do that!

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