Name: Custom Safety Enclosures
Brand: Clearview Plastics
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Choosing your options

The configurator prices the box. This page tells you which options you actually need.

Six panel materials, four filtration paths and a dozen accessories is a lot of choice if nobody tells you what each one is for. Most of the wrong configurations we see are not extravagant — they are someone picking the cheapest panel for a job that needed a different one. Here is how to choose.

A custom Clearview enclosure is CNC-cut to your dimensions in Sacramento, up to 2000 mm on any axis, and ships flat-packed with every bracket, fastener and grommet in the box. What it becomes — a fume enclosure, a dust containment box, a UV-screening cabinet, a laboratory isolation enclosure — is decided almost entirely by the options below.

Step 1 — Panel material

Pick the panel for the hazard, not for the price.

This is the only choice you cannot change after the fact. Everything else bolts on later; the panels are cut once, to your numbers.

Material 01

Clear acrylic

Optically clear and the best all-round choice. Full visibility of the process, good scratch resistance, and the finish most people expect from a display-grade enclosure.

Default · visibility matters

Material 02

Smoked / tinted acrylic

The same panel with a quieter look. Cuts glare and hides a busy machine in a shared office or a showroom, while still letting an operator check a job without opening a door.

Offices · showrooms · shared space

Material 03

UV-blocking amber

Screens ultraviolet. This is the panel for resin printers, UV-curing processes and anything where ambient light reaching the work is itself the problem. Clear acrylic does not do this.

Resin · SLA · UV curing

Material 04

Polycarbonate

Trades scratch resistance for impact resistance. The answer where something inside could be thrown or where the panel might be struck — CNC routers, machining, anything with chips or a spinning tool.

CNC routers · impact risk

Material 05

Expanded PVC

Opaque, light, rigid and the most economical panel we cut. Where you do not need to see in — rear and side walls, sound-deadening builds, or a cost-driven build with a clear front only.

Opaque walls · budget builds

Material 06

Aluminium composite (ACM)

An aluminium-skinned composite panel. Rigid, opaque and the most durable surface in the range — the choice for a shop-floor enclosure that will be knocked, leaned on and cleaned repeatedly.

Industrial · high traffic

Custom Clearview safety enclosure with interior LED lighting, 120 mm fan port and printed corner brackets

Cut to your dimensions

Width, depth and height are yours up to 2000 mm per axis. The bracket system adapts to the numbers you enter rather than forcing you toward a stock size.

Custom enclosure with the front door open, showing the unobstructed opening and magnetic latches

Doors where you work

Front door as standard, with side, rear and top doors available. Put the opening on the face you actually stand at — and add a second one where a machine needs service access from behind.

Step 2 — Air management

The enclosure contains it. The filter is what mitigates it.

Two halves of one system. The box concentrates whatever your process gives off so that a fan or filter has one place to act on — and that second half is a separate selection. An enclosure with no air path is a container, not a control.

Intake

Intake Filter

$29

A pre-filter on incoming air. Keeps room dust and debris out of the enclosure — worth having on any process where contamination ruins the work, and part of the airflow path on any active setup.

Exhaust

Exhaust Filter

$99

Dual-stage HEPA and activated charcoal, moving air out of the enclosure. Reduces fumes and smells. The simplest path and the one most facilities reviewers expect — it needs somewhere to discharge.

Recirculating

Recirculating Filter

$169

Self-contained HEPA and activated charcoal that returns filtered air to the room. No ducting, no window. Reduces fumes and smells; under heavy use it is not always a complete answer on odour.

Window kit

Window Exhaust Kit

$289

The complete outdoor path — duct, bracket and window seal. Pair it with the exhaust filter when the honest answer is that the air should leave the building rather than be filtered and returned.

Which one: if you have a window or a wall you can penetrate, exhaust outdoors. If you do not, recirculate and budget for replacing the carbon. If the room is occupied and the process is genuinely hazardous, neither consumer tier is the right answer — ask us about commercial-grade filtration instead.

Step 3 — Hardware and accessories

The parts that decide how it lives on your bench.

Heavy-duty hardware kitUpgraded metal fasteners, hinges and latches. Specify this on anything that gets opened daily, or anything going into a shared shop where the enclosure will be handled by people who did not build it.

Additional doorsSide, rear or top access. A top door is the usual answer for a tall machine on a low bench; a rear door is how you keep service access without pulling the enclosure off the equipment.

120 mm fan portsCut to the standard fan mounting pattern, so any of our filters — or any 120 mm fan, adapter or part you design yourself — bolts on without modifying a panel. Unused ports ship covered.

Magnetic door latchesIncluded as standard. The door pulls shut and stays shut without a mechanism to line up or a catch to wear out.

Rubber cable grommetIncluded. Power and data pass through the panel rather than being pinched in a door — which is also what keeps the door sealing evenly over time.

Printed parts kitSTL files for every printed bracket come with the order, so you can print them yourself or reprint one that breaks. Add our pre-printed black PETG kit if you would rather build it the day it lands.

Interior LED lightingLets an operator check a job through the panel instead of opening a door mid-process. Worth adding on any enclosure with smoked, amber or opaque panels.

Aluminium extrusion framingQuoted per build. For large enclosures where panel span alone will not hold geometry, and the case where you want a more rigid, better-registered structure than brackets give.

Shipped assembledQuoted per build, freight only. Where your process needs a finished unit on the dock rather than a kit and 60–120 minutes of someone's afternoon.

Applications

One design, a lot of different problems.

The panel and filtration choices above are what turn the same cut geometry into a very different piece of equipment. These are the builds we quote most often.

Additive

3D printer fume enclosures

FDM, resin and SLA. Contains volatile organic compounds and fine particulate so a filter or exhaust can act on them, and keeps shop dust out of the motion system. Amber panels for resin, clear or smoked for filament.

Subtractive

CNC router dust containment

Chips, dust and noise. Polycarbonate is the panel here — impact resistance matters more than scratch resistance the moment a tool can throw something. Pair with intake and exhaust to keep fine dust off the room.

Optical

Laser engraver safety enclosures

Smoke volume is immediate and heavy on a laser, so venting is not an upsell — it is the point. Ask about safety-rated paneling if your review calls for a rated barrier rather than containment.

Print and cure

UV printers and curing processes

Solvent and ink off-gassing plus ambient ultraviolet. Amber panels screen the UV; the filtration path handles the rest. Common on desktop UV flatbeds.

Laboratory

Lab, cleanroom and isolation enclosures

Keeping a process away from the room, or the room away from a process. Intake filtration on positive-pressure builds; exhaust on anything generating vapour. Sized to bench, cart or floor.

Compliance

Workplace safety and facility requirements

The build that exists because an EHS officer or facility manager asked for an engineering control. We supply the documentation to go with it — see the safety document packs.

Where the standard build stops

Not gasketed — and where you need it to be, say so.

The standard enclosure is not gasketed, and that is deliberate. Its job is to contain and concentrate so that a fan or filter can do the mitigating, and that system needs air moving through it. Restrict the airflow and you work against the filtration rather than with it.

Where a review genuinely requires sealed containment, a rated barrier, or integrated ducting rather than a bolt-on filter, those are the specialty options on the configurator above — gasketed seams and doors, safety-rated paneling, and integrated exhaust systems. They are quoted individually because they are engineered individually, and because we would rather scope them properly than sell you a standard box against a requirement it does not meet.

Tick the box, tell us the requirement, and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.

Common questions

Before you request a quote.

What size custom enclosure can you build?

Up to 2000 mm on any axis through the configurator. Larger than that, or multi-bay and enclosure-within-enclosure builds, we quote directly — we regularly build for university labs, manufacturing floors and commercial facilities.

Which panel material should I choose for a 3D printer enclosure?

Clear acrylic for filament printers where you want to watch the print. Amber for resin and any UV-cured process, because clear acrylic does not screen ultraviolet. Smoked if the machine sits in an office and you would rather not look at it all day.

Do I need a filter, or is the enclosure enough on its own?

On its own an enclosure contains and concentrates — it does not remove anything. If your reason for enclosing is air quality rather than dust, noise or containment, you need the second half of the system: exhaust to outside, or a recirculating carbon and HEPA unit.

Can you build an enclosure for a machine you have never seen?

Yes — that is what the custom configurator is for. Give us the machine's footprint plus the clearance it needs for doors, spools, hoses and service access, and we cut to those numbers. If you are unsure what clearance to allow, send us the model and we will work it out.

How long does a custom enclosure take?

Kits ship in 10–15 business days depending on the options selected. Specialty options quoted individually may extend that, and we will tell you the real number before you commit.

Do you provide documentation for a facility safety review?

Yes. Machine-specific safety documentation packs cover hazard assessment, room readiness, ventilation, maintenance and visitor orientation, formatted for EHS audits and insurance reviews. Ask when you request your quote.

What is included in the kit?

CNC-cut panels in your chosen material, a 100-piece binding screw hardware kit, magnetic door latches, a rubber cable grommet, STL files for the printed brackets, and step-by-step instructions. Flat-packed, and assembled on site in 60–120 minutes.

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