The purpose of this project was to create a 3D acrylic object using the laser engraver. I love wearing rings so I decided to create a funky square ring. After some trial and error, I discovered that a ring size of 9 worked best for me, so I used this size diameter when designing the ring using Autodesk Inventor software. I'm happy with the way that it turned out and the neat effect of using one red layer of acrylic sandwiched between two clear layers, so the ring appears to have a different opacity when viewed from different angles.

This project was created with a 40 watt Epilog Engraver; the vector cutting was set to 12% speed, 100% power, and 5000 Hz frequency. Three acrylic layers (2 clear, 1 red) were cut and then clamped and glued together with acrylic glue.