PlasterCalculator vs Perch Pot Usage & Stats
Need a plaster mold to create your ceramic masterpiece? Do you need a simple plaster form suitable for a one-off project?
Plaster Calculator can help!
It's easy to eye-ball the plaster/water ratio for a one-off or non-critical piece using the island method, such as for the bottom of a wetbox. However, when making multi-part molds or a series of identical molds, the proper ratio is critical to ensure consistency across molds and in the resulting ceramic piece.
Plaster Calculator can help you determine the amount of plaster and water for your mix, ensuring consistent results using many of the common plaster types available, including #1 Pottery Plaster, Hydrostone, Ultracal, and several others.
Key Features:
Calculate the volume of your plaster need based on the dimensions of the most common forms in centimeters, inches, or feet. Forms include square/rectangle (cuboid), cylinder, sphere/half-sphere, pyramid (3 and 4 sided), and cone, as-well-as allowing you to enter an already known volume amount.
Additionally, can calculate the volume of a void space within the plaster mold, such as when making a mold from an existing object, the void volume amount will be removed from the main volume.
Save your mix calculation for later referral.
Allows measurement of plaster and water in pounds/ounces or grams, the default can be changed in the Settings.
Calculates a typical volume reduction of 30% (as recommended by some sources). This value can be changed between 0 (for no adjustment) and 45%, the default value can be changed in the Settings.
Provides plaster weight variations -/+5 points from the standard consistency for the plaster. For example, the standard consistency of #1 Pottery Plaster is 70, variations are provided from 65 to 75 supplying the plaster amount needed for that consistency.
Allows changing of the plaster type prior to saving mix, default plaster type can be changed in the Settings.
Choose between three different color splashes for the application - Blue, Gray, and Purple.
Allow optional donation to developer - please do :)
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Organize your pottery work with an app that's always in your pocket. Track glazes with a tap, document what works (or doesn't) with a photo, and have it all searchable.
Perch Pot helps you track everything about your pottery projects:
• Search, sort, filter — Full text search for your notes, sort by what stage your project is at, or filter to a particular clay or custom tag
• Photos — Pictures help you remember your work like nothing else, so they're front and center right alongside your notes
• Automatic sync — Out of the box backup and syncing for all your projects privately on your iCloud account
• Optimized workflows — Everything you track should be quick and painless so you can get back to making
• Customize everything — What stages do you want to track your projects through? What glazes does your studio have? Customize stages, forms, clays, decorative techniques, glazes, and custom tags
• Ideas — Capture project ideas like a neat decorative technique or a good glaze combo in a separate section
• Undo delete — Anything you delete can be found and recovered from the recently deleted section of settings
• Export your data — You shouldn't be locked into an app, so you can always export all your photos and data (and import data from elsewhere)
I built the app I wanted to use for my pottery, and it's really improved how I work. Perch Pot will always be free so anyone can bring a bit more beauty into this world. Happy potting!
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PlasterCalculator VS. 
Perch PotDecember 29, 2024