What can you design for me?

If it can be cut, engraved, bent, or bonded from acrylic sheet, we can draw it. The most common jobs:

Signs and logos

Send your logo as whatever you have, even a screenshot or a business card photo, and we redraw it as clean vectors. We lay out the sign with the outline, the engraving, the lettering, and the mounting holes, and separate what gets cut from what gets engraved. That covers wall signs on standoffs, desk signs, door plates, and edge-lit signs. See acrylic signs and business signs with standoffs for typical sizes.

Parts from a sketch, a photo, or measurements

A napkin sketch with a few dimensions is enough to start. So is a photo of a broken part: lay it on a sheet of paper next to a ruler, shoot it straight down, and add the measurements you can take with a tape or calipers. We draw the replacement to size, with the holes where the old ones were. Covers, guards, brackets, spacers, panels, and templates all come in this way.

Boxes, display cases, stands, and enclosures

Boxes are where a design file earns its keep. The panels have to account for sheet thickness, which isn't exactly nominal (see actual acrylic thickness), and for the material the laser removes. We design joints that fit, whether the piece is bonded into a display case, built as a riser or stand, or screwed together as an electronics enclosure with cut-outs for ports, switches, and vents. Bonded work goes to our fabrication team.

Tab-and-slot assemblies

Parts that slot together without glue need slots sized to the real sheet, not the number on the label, or they're loose or won't go in. We size tabs and slots for the sheet we'll cut them from. Tab-and-slot design in acrylic and press-fit tolerances explain the details.

Engraving artwork, cleaned up and vectorized

Low-resolution images, scans, hand lettering, and photos rarely engrave well as they are. We trace them to vectors, clean up rough edges, thicken lines that are too fine to show, and set up photos for engraving. If you want to try it yourself first, read how to convert an image to SVG for laser cutting.

Fixing files that won't cut

Already have a file that something rejected? Common problems we fix:

  • Open paths: outlines that don't close, so there's no shape to cut out.
  • Duplicate lines: lines stacked on top of each other, which cut twice and can scorch the edge.
  • Wrong scale: a file drawn in millimeters read as inches, or exported at the wrong size.
  • Text that isn't outlined, stray points, and cut and engrave lines mixed on one layer.

The laser file checker shows the size, cut length, and open paths in a DXF or SVG, so you can see what's wrong before you call.

Choosing materials and details

We help you pick the thickness and color, the edge finish, the hole sizes, and how the piece mounts: standoffs, screws, adhesive, or a stand. If acrylic is the wrong material for the job, we'll tell you.

How does it work?

  1. Call or email. Reach us at (435) 777-7001 or info@wecutacrylic.com. Tell us what you're making and how it will be used, and we'll discuss scope and cost.
  2. Send what you have. Email sketches, photos, measurements, logos, and pictures of pieces you like.
  3. Approve the design. We design it and send you a drawing or proof with the sizes, thickness, color, and finishes marked. Changes are made before anything is cut.
  4. We cut it. Once you approve the design, we confirm the price. Nothing is cut until you've agreed to it.

What should I have ready for the call?

  • The overall size, or the space it has to fit, in inches or millimeters.
  • How many you need, now and later.
  • Where it goes: indoors or outdoors, wall, desk, or machine, and what it attaches to.
  • Any artwork: logos, fonts, or images, in the best quality you have.
  • Photos and sketches, with a ruler or tape in the frame for anything you're replacing.
  • Color and look, if you have one in mind, even a picture of something similar.
  • The date you need it by, so we can plan around it.

Not sure about some of it? Call anyway. Working out those answers is part of the job.

Would you rather do it yourself?

Design services are for projects you'd rather hand off. If you want to do it yourself, you have three faster routes: