Completely new to CNC - Acrylic work possible with Shapeoko 3?

[DanoInTx (Dan Nelson)]

That’s pretty cool, switch plate cover? Regardless of use, still very cool!

I’ve been messing with acrylic a bit myself and found it cuts great…once you find the sweet spot. My recent work was limited to using small 1/16" end mills, so the current SO3 speeds and feeds chart didn’t work for me, but I messed around with GWizard a bit and got some pretty usable numbers as described in my SuperPID post here:

SuperPID + Dewalt + SO3 XXL

Hello Forum and Happy New Year! I built my XXL this past Summer and wanted to make it as versatile as possible, the first thing I noticed was the relatively high spindle speed of the Dewalt router even at its minimum speed (16,000 RPM). A little research and I found http://www.vhipe.com/product-private/index.htm and noticed at the time they were running a special 10 or 15% off, can’t remember now, so I put in an order. The order arrived from Australia a couple weeks later. Adding the SuperPI…

Note that all my cuts were done with a stock Dewalt prior to the SPID install, so a stock machine will definitely do it. Now I just have to get my garage back in order post-Christmas so I can actually get to my machine again and see what else I can cut, haha!!

Dan