How To Cut Clear Vinyl Sheets

You can easily cut thin plastic sheets less than 1 16 inch 063 thick with a utility knife.

How to cut clear vinyl sheets. Just put some blue painters tape around the role where i was cutting. Acrylic sheets are fairly simple to cut. Htv has a clear plastic carrier sheet that covers the top of the vinyl and the other side is where the heat sensitive adhesive is it is not sticky or tacky to the touch. Otherwise you ll need to use a saw to cut it.

The reason that you need to mirror your design when working with heat transfer or iron on vinyl you cut the design on the back side of the vinyl. Cut decorative edges or sew fabric edges to your project. Put on safety glasses before doing any kind of cutting and wear ear plugs if you use an electric saw. Softer colored plastic sheets often require two passes and then must be snapped on the score.

The cricut can cut a maximum width of 12 so i had to cut my vinyl down by hand to make it fit on the mat. Mylar film can be used to produce artist overlays charts layouts and other projects with superior clarity. Recently i ordered some white adhesive vinyl without paying attention to the width it was 15 wide. P i ve cut a few rolls with a miter saw now issues.

Corrugated roofing sheets are an inexpensive way to cover a patio shed or greenhouse and are available in colors such as white blue and green as well as opaque colors and clear plastic. I don t recall what the tooth count of the blade i was using but it was the standard blade i use for cutting wood maybe a 60 tooth p. Harder clear plastics such as polycarbonate may require multiple passes with a knife but the result will be a clean cut finished edge with no chips or cracks. Trick is to not go too fast or too slow.

You can cut along the sides of the clear vinyl using pinking shears or decorative scissors. If your sheet is relatively thin less than 3 16 inch 0 48 cm you can use the scoring method. Although the clear vinyl won t fray you may want to finish the edges to give your project a professional look. This tutorial will show you how to cut vinyl using cricut design space which is the cricut design software used for all newer cricut models cricut explore explore air explore one explore air 2 and cricut maker if you have an older cricut machine that uses cricut craft room the software looks different from design space but the basics are the same.