ePlastics app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 886 ratings )
Reference Education
Developer: Ridout Plastics Company
Free
Current version: 2.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 13 May 2014
App size: 31.21 Mb

EVERYTHING PLASTICS – a comprehensive resource for plastic selection. Get need-to-know knowledge of architectural, industrial, engineering and high performance plastic sheets and shapes.

• In-depth reference for the most widely used plastics in manufacturing, construction, research, and interior design industries. This includes sheet, rods, tubes, and profiles of acrylic, polycarbonate, fiberglass, acetal, HDPE, UHMW and more.
• Material and product literature
• MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets).
• Chemical resistance, cleaning and fabrication guides
• Our own Plastics Material Selection Guide.
• Videos of commercial and custom fabrication, DIY videos
• ePlastics TV
• Guide to Weld-On plastic glues
• Powerful, fast search option
• Complete fabrication gallery
• Email PDF content in app to anyone
• Ad free

We hope you find this as an informative resource and enjoy the learning experience. We designed this app as a complimentary resource to our website and not a substitute.

Tips for using our App

Tip #1 "Search Function"
Use our smart category search! In the upper right hand corner of the home screen is a magnifying glass. Click on it to instantly find what youre looking for. We have over 250 pages of information; you may find this helpful if you have in mind what you are looking for.

Tip #2 "Loading from the Cloud"
We want to provide you with the most recent and accurate information as well as limit the file size of the app which has access to 3+ gigabytes of documents, data and videos. As such, this app loads many documents from our cloud server. As long as you have 3G or above, there should be no waiting times. In addition, once you have loaded a page, it will be cached for later viewing offline.

Tip #3 "Emailing data sheets to yourself"
When viewing a PDF file, look to the bottom right corner and you will see the "email" icon. You can use this function to email the document to yourself or another.

Tip #4 "Rotating your phone to landscape"
This app works in both portrait and landscape modes. When reading an html document, rotating to landscape will increase the size of the text for easier viewing.