Can we quote a modified catalogue tool?

Yes. Change its length, diameter or corner in the endmill design module and the price and drawing follow, with the rod matched from your stock.

Can customers pick their tool?

Yes. The Machining tool selector returns the tool and its cutting data, each line citing the published table it was read from.

Does it cross reference grades?

No. Carbide grades are named by grain and binder and are never cross referenced between producers.

Special cutting tool quoting software

Prices at the example rates each design module ships with

From the live engine

Draws the tool itself. No CAD seat needed.
Keep your ERP. Your geometry stays yours.

Specials sized, drawn and priced for your engineers to check, while the customer is still deciding.

The request and any drawing are read.
The tool is configured in 3D on your rules, priced on real costs and drawn.
The quote line is ready for the engineer to check.
Impossible combinations are stopped before quoting.
Regrinds and stock lines sit in the same answer.

Cutting diameter: 10 mm
Flutes: 4
Length of cut: 22 mm
Overall length: 72 mm
End form: Corner radius

Price for 5 offAt the example rates the design module ships with

£210.66

End form: Corner radius

From the live engine

Real requests

Mixed endmills
10 off 10mm 4FL carbide endmill AlTiN coated, LOC 30 min; 20 off 1/4" 3FL SQ EM TiAlN
1/4" read as 6.35mm; LOC 30 min kept as a floor.
A special from rod
20 off special solid carbide square end mill, custom ground from rod, 10mm diameter, 10mm shank, 80mm overall length
Rod from your stock, priced pass by pass and drawn.
Inserts described, not coded
20 off external turning inserts, 80 degree rhombic shape, 0.8mm nose radius, grade P25 for general steel turning
Read as ISO shape C, group P, grade P25, then matched.

Close up of ground carbide cutting inserts on a dark surface

See it work

Matched to your carbide rod
Your rod, grinding passes and files.
What it is made from, and the files it produces
A solid carbide endmill at its design module's defaults: the cutting list the engine takes off, 5 lines against the preset's stock with the assumptions it states, beside the 6 file formats the design module produces.
Rod blank
Carbide is priced by the piece from the diameter and the length, so the blank is matched nearest above.
Carbide rod, Submicron grain, 10% binder5 off
Ø10 x 74.5mm, ground h6
84.3g each. Matched on the largest ground diameter, Ø10.
Grinding
One line per wheel pass, the way the cell is set.
Flute grinding30.71 min
27.9mm wheel path per flute at 38°
The dominant pass: the wheel path is the length of cut over the cosine of the helix angle.
Gashing and end teeth30 min
4 teeth, 12° end rake, 18° relief
Peripheral relief11.17 min
0.2mm margin, 8° primary relief
Inspection
Measure and record, h67.50 min
What this take-off assumes
The blank is the finished length plus 1mm for facing, which is what published cut to length ground blanks carry, plus 1.5mm for the cut off.
Rod matched on Ø10, the largest ground diameter on the tool, not on the cutting diameter.
Every grinding rate is a modelled default. Set them against your own cell in Rates and stock.
Stock that covers this size
The stock below is the example list the preset ships with. Load your own and the take-off matches against what you actually hold.
Carbide rod, submicron 10% binder, ground h6, Ø10 x 80£11.40 / each
Covers the size, 93 per cent of the stock used
Carbide rod, submicron 10% binder, ground h6, Ø10 x 100£13.80 / each
Covers the size, 75 per cent of the stock used
Carbide rod, submicron 10% binder, ground h6, Ø12 x 100£19.50 / each
Covers the size, 62 per cent of the stock used
Carbide rod, submicron 10% binder, ground h6, Ø16 x 100£34.50 / each
Covers the size, 47 per cent of the stock used
Carbide rod, submicron 10% binder, ground h6, Ø12 x 150£27.40 / each
Covers the size, 41 per cent of the stock used
Carbide rod, submicron 10% binder, ground h6, Ø16 x 150£49.00 / each
Covers the size, 31 per cent of the stock used
Carbide rod, submicron 10% binder, ground h6, Ø20 x 150£76.00 / each
Covers the size, 25 per cent of the stock used
Carbide rod, submicron 10% binder, ground h6, Ø25 x 150£118.00 / each
Covers the size, 20 per cent of the stock used
Specification and quote PDF
The dimensioned elevation, every parameter, the price and the assumptions.
Cutting list CSV
Every line of the cutting list with its size and quantity, for the workshop.
DXF
The elevation as line work on named layers.
STL
Mesh for viewing and printing.
GLB
Mesh for the web and for sharing.
STEP
Solid geometry for CAD.
Every export carries its configuration id and is built from the same values.
From the live engine
Rules stop what you will not make
The wrong helix never reaches a quote.
A solid carbide endmill, checked by its own rules
A solid carbide endmill checked by its design module's own rules: a starting set nothing blocks, then one change a rule refuses.
Helix angle: 45°. A rule blocks it.
From the live engine

Products that apply

Not for: Carbide drills and reamers, not built yet.

By topic

Proof you can check

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Send one special you quoted and see it back priced and drawn.

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Presets for this trade

How presets work

Settings, Presets

What it sets up

3 product schemas

Cutting tools
Solid carbide and HSS round tools
Indexable tooling

Wizard

Machining tool selector
From the part, the material and the cut, the tool to use and the cutting data to run it at: diameter, flutes and coating or the insert, the grade and the chipbreaker, with the speed, the feed, the depth, the removal rate and the power at the cut, every line carrying the published table it was read from, matched to what you hold.

Not this preset: Sharpening and recoating the tools back in. Turn on Tool regrind and recoat for that.

Needs Sales Engineer and Wizard.

What it sets up

Product schema

Indexable tooling

Wizard

Machining tool selector
From the part, the material and the cut, the tool to use and the cutting data to run it at: diameter, flutes and coating or the insert, the grade and the chipbreaker, with the speed, the feed, the depth, the removal rate and the power at the cut, every line carrying the published table it was read from, matched to what you hold.

Not this preset: Solid round tools. Cutting tools covers those.

Needs Sales Engineer and Wizard.

What it sets up

Design module

Carbide endmills
Endmills and form cutters ground from carbide rod, with the blank matched out of your own stock.
Produces customer drawing, rod and grinding schedule, spec sheet, step

Product schema

Solid carbide and HSS round tools

Not this preset: Selling round tools you hold as stock. Cutting tools carries the schemas for that today.

Needs Sales Engineer and Design Engineer.

Cutting tools is on

From the live engine

What each preset installs

Cutting tools
- Cutting tools schema
- Solid carbide and HSS round tools schema
- Indexable tooling schema
- Machining tool selector
Indexable tooling
- Indexable tooling schema
- Machining tool selector
Solid round tools
- Solid carbide endmill design module
- Solid carbide and HSS round tools schema

Questions

: Yes. Change its length, diameter or corner in the endmill design module and the price and drawing follow, with the rod matched from your stock.More on Solid carbide endmills
: Yes. The Machining tool selector returns the tool and its cutting data, each line citing the published table it was read from.More on Machining tool selector
: No. Carbide grades are named by grain and binder and are never cross referenced between producers.

Cutting tool manufacturers and distributors

Specials sized, drawn and priced for your engineers to check, while the customer is still deciding.

Real requests

Mixed endmills

A special from rod

Inserts described, not coded

See it work

Matched to your carbide rod

Rod blank

Grinding

Inspection

What this take-off assumes

Stock that covers this size

Rules stop what you will not make

Resolve before exporting

Products that apply

By topic

Proof you can check

Send us one job

Presets for this trade

What it sets up

What it sets up

What it sets up

Cutting tools

Indexable tooling

Solid round tools

Questions