First Acrylic cut - Advice please

I have some new settings that didn’t work :slight_smile:
Although…I cut at 12mm DOC so wasn’t expecting anything but a broken bit.

Trochoidal Stepover		10%
Trochoidal Width		50%
Trochoidal Oscilation	.1mm
Quality			?
Material		? 12mm thick
Bit				1/8" Single Flute Upcut
DOC				12mm (!!!)
Feed XY			15mm/s
Feed Z			2mm/s
Speed			~15000 (2.75 on Makita RT701C)
Notes		

It cut…
But looks like melted garbage.

The bit didn’t break and now has an attractive acrylic fan wrapped around it.

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