Industries
Cutting tool manufacturers and distributors
Kabaido reads every tool enquiry, matches stocked lines by attribute and prices specials ground from carbide rod.

From the live engine
The work it does
Tool enquiries mix catalogue designations with specials ground to order, and each line needs an engineer's reading.
A mixed endmill enquiry
10 off 10mm 4FL carbide endmill AlTiN coated, LOC 30 min; 20 off 1/4" 3FL SQ EM TiAlN
- Preset
- Cutting tools
- Runs
- Sales Engineer, matching on the Cutting tools schema
- Outcome
- 1/4" read as 6.35mm; LOC 30 min kept as a floor, not a length.
A special endmill from rod
20 off special solid carbide square end mill, custom ground from rod, 10mm diameter, 10mm shank, 80mm overall length
- Preset
- Solid round tools
- Runs
- Solid carbide endmill design module
- Outcome
- Rod matched from your own stock, the grinding priced pass by pass, with a priced drawing.
Inserts described, not coded
20 off external turning inserts, 80 degree rhombic shape, 0.8mm nose radius, grade P25 for general steel turning
- Preset
- Indexable tooling
- Runs
- Sales Engineer, matching on the Indexable tooling schema
- Outcome
- Read as ISO shape C, 0.8mm corner radius, material group P and grade P25, then matched.
See it
The catalogue filter rail over a 300 endmill file, narrowed by flute count and coating for one request line; the diameter it asks for is not in the list, so there is no exact product.
From a real fixture
The Cutting tools schema from the preset library: the product form its fields produce and the filters it adds to the catalogue grid.
From a real fixture
The presets for this trade
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
The products it uses most
- Sales EngineerSales Engineer answers the technical customer request, from the enquiry arriving to the quote or order going back.
- Design EngineerDesign Engineer turns a custom enquiry into a configured, priced and drawn product.
- WizardWizard picks the right product for the application, the way an application engineer would.
- StockStock keeps one true quantity for everything you hold, wherever it is.
Not for: Drills, reamers and countersinks ground to order, which are not built yet, and regrinding tools that come back.
Questions
- Yes. Stocked tools match from your catalogue; a special is set out in the endmill design module, 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.
- Not yet. They share the endmill's parameter set and are not built; stocked drills and reamers match from your catalogue today.More on Solid round tools