0.040" Clear Acrylic Sheet
Color 000 · 0.040" thick
0.040" Clear transparent acrylic (plexiglass), cut to your exact size from 11″ to 48″ per side. Choose a standard size or enter custom dimensions, add flame- or diamond-polished edges, and see the price instantly.
0.040" clear in practice
Transparent stock at 0.040" reads as a clean pane — you see the object behind it, not the material.
At this thickness the sheet flexes easily and is better thought of as a facing than a panel — it wants a frame or a backing behind it, and it will bow under its own weight over any real span.
In a laser: a CO2 machine cuts this cleanly and leaves a flame-polished edge. A diode laser will not cut it at any setting — the beam passes straight through transparent acrylic.
0.040" clear (color 000) starts at $4.59 for a 12″ × 12″ piece at this thickness, and weighs about 0.25 lb per square foot, so a 24″ × 48″ piece comes to roughly 2 lb — worth knowing before you size a panel someone has to lift or ship.
About Clear acrylic
Clear acrylic is the original — optically clean, about as transparent as glass but roughly half the weight and far harder to shatter. It's the default for glazing, display cases, tabletop covers, sneeze guards, and picture-frame glazing: anywhere you want the material itself to disappear and the contents to be the show. Polished edges on clear stock look like water.
Made to order. Everything listed here is available to order now. If your color or thickness runs out after you order and we can get more quickly, we make or source it and ship as soon as it's back in — we'll email you if there's a delay. If it's no longer available at all, we cancel that item and refund it in full. On a deadline? Email us before you order with the date and we'll tell you straight whether it looks tight.