Machining
Gear cutting tools
Gear hobs, shaper cutters and shaving cutters in HSS, PM-HSS or carbide, often coated. The blank is matched from stock and the price builds from the module, the gashes and the accuracy class.
How you configure it
The parameters that define the part
A gear cutting tools configurator is a schema of parameters and your own formulas. Declare the values a request fills in, and the price follows from them.
Tool kind and module
A hob, a shaper cutter or a shaving cutter, set by its module and pressure angle, with the outside diameter, bore and overall length that fix the blank.
Gashes and starts
The gash count and the number of starts drive the relieving and gashing time, the largest part of the grind on a gear tool.
Accuracy and finish
An accuracy class from A upward sets the inspection and the tolerance allowance, with an HSS, PM-HSS or carbide substrate and an optional coating.
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.
Hob · module 3 · 20° pressure angle · 12 gashes · single start · class A · TiN
- Blank
- The nearest blank at or above the outside diameter and length, matched from your stock pool.
- Gashing and relieving
- The gash count and module drive the bulk of the grind time, on your own rate per minute.
- Heat treat and inspection
- A heat treat charge and an inspection base that rises with the accuracy class.
- Setup
- Your setup cost, spread across the batch quantity.
Lead time 16 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
- The blank is matched from your stock pool on the outside diameter and the overall length, and carried as its own line in the breakdown. When no blank fits, a fallback cost takes over so a request for an unusual size still returns a price.
- 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 special form (optional). 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
Gear cutting tools lean on these knowledge packs, so the request is read into structured values across the materials and applications they touch.
Gear cutting tools make the gears that run everything from gearboxes to actuators: spur and helical gears, splines and sprockets, in the module range your machines hold. The class A test tool above is a finishing hob, where the accuracy class carries real inspection cost, and the configurator keeps that cost yours to set.
The cutting, materials, coatings, CNC and metrology knowledge packs sit beneath the work, so a request that names a module, a pressure angle or an accuracy class 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.
CNC
Machines and machined parts, matched on taper, geometry and capacity.
Metrology
Tolerances, finishes and inspection read at the right range and resolution.
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.
- Hob sharpening and recoat
- A worn hob is sharpened on the flanks and recoated, priced from the gash count through your own rates.
Questions
The detail, answered
- Gear hobs, gear shaper cutters and shaving cutters, in HSS, PM-HSS or carbide. The module, pressure angle, gash count and accuracy class set the price through your own rates.
- A higher accuracy class means more inspection and a tighter grind, so it carries a real cost. The inspection base rises with the class, and you set the rate.
- Yes. A DXF special form is read in your browser and used alongside the parameters, so a non standard profile is priced and drawn rather than refused.
Quote a gear tool from a real request
Send an RFQ for a hob or a shaper cutter and see it configured, priced from the module up and matched to a blank.