Machining
Custom machined parts
Parts machined to a customer 3D model or 2D drawing. CAD is the cost input: an STL or STEP autofills the bounding box and volume, a DXF supplies the flat profile, and the geometry sets the material and the machining time.
Custom machined part
Geometry pricedAccepts STL, STEP or DXF.
- Bounding box
- 100 × 60 × 20 mm
- Finished volume
- 80 cm³
- Features
- 6
Configured price
Lead time 7 days
Illustrative rates. Analysis runs in your browser; only the derived numbers and a file hash are sent.
How you configure it
The parameters that define the part
A custom machined parts configurator is a schema of parameters and your own formulas. Declare the values a request fills in, and the price follows from them.
The source
From a 3D model or a 2D drawing. The model path reads the bounding box, the finished volume and the surface area; the drawing path reads the profile and the cut.
Material and tolerance
The material grade, the tightest tolerance and the surface finish set the machining allowance, with a feature count for the complexity.
Strategy and quantity
A three, four or five axis strategy, the number of setups, the programming time and the batch quantity, 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.
From a 3D model · AL 6061 · 100 × 60 × 20 mm · 80 cm³ finished · 6 features
- Material
- The stock to cover the bounding box plus an allowance, priced from your material rate.
- Machining time
- The finished volume, the surface area and the feature count, run through your machine strategy rate.
- Programming and setup
- Programming time and the number of setups, on your own rate per hour.
- Non productive time
- Load, unload and tool change time, added on top of the cut.
Lead time 7 days. Modelled from the seeded preset, for illustration only.
Custom machined part
Geometry pricedAccepts STL, STEP or DXF.
- Bounding box
- 100 × 60 × 20 mm
- Finished volume
- 80 cm³
- Features
- 6
Configured price
Lead time 7 days
Illustrative rates. Analysis runs in your browser; only the derived numbers and a file hash are sent.
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
- Custom machined parts have no parametric drawing engine, because the part is whatever the customer draws. The CAD itself is the input: the geometry is measured in your browser and only the derived numbers and a file hash are sent, so the model stays on your machine until you choose to attach it.
- 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 STL or STEP autofill, or DXF for 2D. 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
Custom machined parts lean on these knowledge packs, so the request is read into structured values across the materials and applications they touch.
This is the path for the one off and the small batch a customer draws once and needs made: a jig plate, a fixture body, an adapter block, a bracket or a bushing, where there is no catalogue line to match. The geometry drives the price, so a heavier or busier part costs more without anyone retyping a figure.
The CNC, materials, metrology and cutting knowledge packs sit beneath the work, so a request that names a material by its grade, a tolerance in microns or a finish by its Ra is read into the structured values the price needs.
CNC
Machines and machined parts, matched on taper, geometry and capacity.
Materials
Bar, plate and grades with condition and the certificates that ship.
Metrology
Tolerances, finishes and inspection read at the right range and resolution.
Cutting
Cutting tools and blades, read across coatings, flutes, teeth and lengths.
Questions
The detail, answered
- An STL or a STEP solid autofills the bounding box, the volume and the surface area; a DXF supplies a flat profile with its cut length and pierces. Analysis runs in your browser and only the derived numbers and a file hash are sent.
- The part is whatever the customer draws, so there is no parametric engine to generate a drawing. The uploaded model is the reference, and a view of it can be captured onto the run.
- From the finished volume, the surface area, the feature count and your machine strategy rate, plus programming, setups and non productive time. Every rate is yours to edit.
Price a part straight from its model
Send the model of a part you need machined and let the geometry set the price, computed in your browser.