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Machined plastics
Machined plastics covers engineering plastics supplied cut to size or machined to specification: sheet, rod and tube in grades like nylon 6, acetal, PEEK, HDPE, PTFE and polycarbonate.
Cut-to-size buyers already expect to order online: three dimensions, a grade and a price. They are design engineers, OEMs, maintenance teams and shopfitters, and every phone quote for a £40 offcut is conversion lost to whoever prices it instantly.
The live configurator digitises exactly that: pick a form and grade, type the dimensions and watch the price and the stock yield appear as you type. The buyer sees which stock item the cut comes from, so the price reflects the material actually consumed and quoting stops being a phone call.
How it divides
The buyer configures. You stay in control.
A configurator moves the typing to the buyer and keeps every rule, rate and limit in the seller's hands.
What the buyer sets
- Form: sheet, rod or tube
- Material grade from the seller's stock
- Dimensions, priced as you type
- Cut quality and quantity
What stays in your hands
- The stock list that drives grades and sizes
- Tolerances per cut quality
- Rates and quantity breaks
- The datasheets behind the AI's answers
What it covers
Example configurable products
- Acetal (POM-C) sheet cut to size
- Nylon 6 rod cut to length
- PEEK and PTFE machined blanks
- Polycarbonate and HDPE panels with saw-cut or machined faces
Inside a configurator
From parameters to a dispatched order
One runtime carries every category: typed inputs, a cited AI, live 3D, a priced breakdown, manufacturing files and dispatch into your systems.
Parameters
Typed inputs with live rule checks
AI
Cites its source or abstains
3D model
Rebuilds as values change
Price
Line-by-line breakdown
Export
Manufacturing files and PDF
Dispatch
Into your ERP or CRM
Live today
What a machined plastics order looks like
Real widgets from the live configurator, running on clearly labelled example data until a seller loads their own.
Shortlists only grades whose loaded datasheets carry a food-contact statement, then sets the dimensions.
Source: Material datasheet food contact field (example data)
The loaded datasheet for that grade carries no food-contact statement, so I cannot confirm it. Ask the seller to document it.
Every answer cites a loaded source or abstains. Enforced in code, not in a prompt.
What an order produces
- STLVerified download, configuration id in the file header
- GLBVerified download with configuration metadata
- PDFSpecification and quote sheet with tolerances
STEP and flat-sheet DXF exports are generated and parser-verified but stay in verification until confirmed in independent CAD software.
Questions
About this category
- Which forms and grades can be configured?
- Sheet or plate, rod and tube, in the grades the seller stocks. The preset ships with example grades including nylon 6, acetal POM-C, PEEK, HDPE, PTFE and polycarbonate.
- How does stock matching work?
- The configurator resolves each cut against the seller's stock items and shows the matched blank and the yield, so the price reflects the material actually consumed.
- Can the AI confirm food contact compliance?
- Only where the seller has loaded a datasheet carrying a food-contact statement. Without one it abstains: it never asserts compliance the seller has not documented.
Configure a machined plastics product now
The configurator prices it, checks the rules and exports the files. Start free with example data.