Cutting
Profile machine knives
Planer, moulder, granulator, guillotine and slitter knives in tool steel or HSS, often with a ground profile. The blank is priced from the size, the edge is ground to your bevel and a DXF profile is drawn to scale.
How you configure it
The parameters that define the part
A profile machine knives configurator is a schema of parameters and your own formulas. Declare the values a request fills in, and the price follows from them.
Knife type and steel
Planer, moulder, granulator, guillotine and slitter knives, in tool steel or HSS, with the size set by length, width and thickness.
The edge
A single or double bevel, the bevel and back angles and the edge type, which drive the grinding time and the surface work.
Profile and hardness
A straight edge or a ground profile from an uploaded DXF, the target hardness and any holes, each priced through your own rates.
Priced to how it is made
Every price shows its build up
The price is built from how the part is made, never a single opaque number. Every rate below is an illustrative starting default you edit; nothing here is Kabaido pricing advice.
Planer · D2 · 300 × 60 × 10 mm · 45° bevel · single edge · 60 HRC
- Blank
- The tool steel or HSS blank, priced from the size and your steel rate.
- Edge grinding
- The bevel and the surface work drive the grind time, on your own rate per minute.
- Profile and heat treat
- Profile grinding where a DXF is supplied, plus a heat treat charge by weight to the target hardness.
- Setup
- Your setup cost, spread across the batch quantity.
Lead time 8 days. Modelled from the seeded preset, for illustration only.
Matched from your stock
Priced from what you hold
A configured price is only as good as what stands behind it. Kabaido prices from the stock you hold and asks when it does not know.
- Stock matching
- Machine knives are priced from the blank size and your steel rate, so a knife in any size returns a price without waiting on a matched stock item. A DXF profile, where one is supplied, is drawn to scale on the run so the shape on screen is the one being quoted.
- Reserved when the order lands
- Ordering a configured product reserves the matched stock, so the item you priced is the one set aside. Low stock raises a banner before it bites.
- It asks rather than guesses
- When a request leaves a parameter open, Kabaido asks a clarification instead of inventing a value. Missing means a question, not a guess.
CAD import
Bring your CAD and let it autofill
This category accepts DXF profile. Import a file to autofill the inputs and as a reference, computed deterministically in your browser.
Export from the CAD you already run, then drop the file on the configurator. A 3D solid autofills the bounding box, the volume and the surface area; a 2D profile supplies the cut length, the pierce count and the material area, and is drawn to scale on the run. The figures fill the inputs, and you confirm or correct them before anything is priced, so the import is autofill and reference, never a guess.
STEP files (.step or .stp), STL (.stl), DXF (.dxf) and DWG (.dwg) are read today. IGES and Parasolid are on the roadmap. The analysis runs in your browser, so only the derived numbers and a file hash travel with the run; the model stays on your machine until you choose to attach it. The full behaviour lives in Configure.
Reads exports from
- SolidWorks
- Autodesk Fusion
- Autodesk Inventor
- Siemens NX
- PTC Creo
- CATIA
- Rhino
File types
- STEP .step or .stp, and STL .stl, for a 3D solid
- DXF .dxf and DWG .dwg, for a 2D profile
- IGES and Parasolid on the roadmap
Documents
The drawing and the work order
A configured line carries its paperwork. Two documents come off every run, so the part is quoted and made on the same figures.
The engineering drawing
A dimensioned 2D drawing of the configured part, generated from the same parameters that priced it. It travels with the line onto the quote PDF, the email and the customer portal.
The production work order
A work order for the shop floor that lists the matched stock, the operations and the parameters, so the part is made to the figures it was quoted on.
Applications and materials
What it cuts and what it is made from
Profile machine knives lean on these knowledge packs, so the request is read into structured values across the materials and applications they touch.
Machine knives do the cutting that keeps a line running: planer and moulder knives that profile timber, granulator knives that reclaim plastic, guillotine knives that shear sheet and slitter knives that part film and foil. The steel grade, bevel and profile is a different choice for each, and the configurator keeps those choices yours to set.
The cutting, materials and coatings knowledge packs sit beneath the work, so a request that names a steel grade, a bevel angle or a knife by its machine is read into the structured values the price needs.
Cutting
Cutting tools and blades, read across coatings, flutes, teeth and lengths.
Materials
Bar, plate and grades with condition and the certificates that ship.
Coatings
Coatings by type and thickness, with strip and recoat understood.
Servicing
And serviced when it comes back
The work does not end at the first sale. These service templates seed with the category, each priced through the same engine as a quote.
- Knife regrind and edge restoration
- A worn knife is reground to its bevel and the edge restored, priced through the same formula as a new knife.
Questions
The detail, answered
- Yes. Upload a DXF profile and it is drawn to scale on the run and used to price the profile grinding, so a moulder or a special edge is quoted with the shape it will be ground to.
- Planer, moulder, granulator, guillotine and slitter knives, in tool steel or HSS. The type sets the edge work and the size sets the blank.
- Yes. The same formula engine prices the regrind when the knife comes back worn, so a new knife and an edge restoration share one set of rules.
Quote a machine knife from a real request
Send an RFQ or a drawing for a planer, granulator or guillotine knife and see it configured, ground to your profile and priced.