Design a PCD saw blade
Set out a PCD tipped circular saw blade tooth by tooth, with its tips and discs counted and its body blank priced.
Updated 11 November 2026
On this page
- Why
- A diamond tipped blade is its machine, its size and its teeth. The teeth set its price.
- How
- Set the machine and the size, choose the tooth configuration and the mounting, then read the checks and the price.
It opens in the workbench at /app/design/pcd-saw-blade.
Families
This design module has one family: the PCD tipped blade. What changes the blade is the sequence its teeth repeat, set under Tooth configuration.
| Tooth configuration | What it is |
|---|---|
| TCG, trapezoid and raker | A trapezoid tooth then a flat raker. The trapezoid takes the bulk and the raker cleans the kerf floor. |
| ATB, alternate top bevel | Top bevels alternating left and right. |
| ATBR, bevels with raker | Alternate bevels followed by a raker. |
| FTG, flat top | Every tooth flat. |
| Hollow back | A hollow tooth. |
| Custom sequence | Your own repeating sequence of trapezoid, flat, bevel left, bevel right and hollow tips, typed as letters. |
What you set
| Group | What it holds | Values you set |
|---|---|---|
| Blade and body | The machine and material the blade is for, and the body it is cut from. | Machine class; Material cut; Diameter; Kerf; Plate thickness; Body steel |
| Teeth and tips | Count, configuration and angles. Sequences alternate tip shapes around the blade. | Tooth count; Tooth configuration; Tip sequence; Hook angle; Top clearance; Radial side clearance; 2 more |
| PCD discs | The polycrystalline discs the tip blanks are wire cut from. | PCD disc; Usable disc diameter; Disc thickness; Diamond layer |
| Bore and mounting | Bore, pin holes and keyways, or draw and import a custom pattern. | Bore; Mounting; Pin pattern; Pin holes; Pin hole diameter; Pin pitch circle; 1 more |
| Expansion slots | Laser cut compensation slots. Ends are always radiused. | Expansion slots; Slot count; Slot length; Slot width |
| Running conditions | Rim speed, spindle speed and feed are linked, not independent. | Target rim speed; Chip load per tooth |
| Quantity | Quantity |
- A named Tooth configuration sets Hook angle and Top clearance. A custom sequence sets neither.
- Material cut sets Target rim speed and Chip load per tooth. They are running guides for the record and do not change the price.
- PCD disc sets the usable diameter, the thickness and the diamond layer. Its last option lets you type the three. The disc thickness becomes the tip thickness.
- Pin pattern sets the pin count, the hole diameter and the pitch circle. Its last option lets you type them.
- A bore outline or hole pattern the pin values cannot say is drawn or imported: set Mounting to Drawn or imported pattern.
- Expansion slots on its standard setting takes the slot count from the diameter. Every slot end is drawn with a radius.
What is checked
A block stops the price and every export until it is fixed. A warning changes nothing. Several limits say in their own message that they are examples for you to confirm.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| The kerf does not exceed the plate by enough for the tips to clear the body on both faces | Block |
| The bore is too large for the diameter to leave a workable body | Block |
| The pin holes reach too close to the bore or sit outside the clamping flange region | Block |
| Too many teeth for the diameter to seat, braze and grind a PCD tip | Block |
| A custom configuration with no tip sequence | Block |
| A tooth pitch that is tight for PCD tipping | Warning |
| A positive hook on aluminium and plastics | Warning |
| A large blade with no expansion slots | Warning |
| A scoring blade, which only works paired with its main blade | Warning |
| A rim speed outside the published band for the material | Warning |
| A large blade on an edgebander | Warning |
| A disc too thick for the tooth to seat or to carry its own clearance | Warning |
When the tooth cannot seat the disc you chose, the tip and its pocket are drawn thinner and Tip thickness as drawn shows the thickness drawn. Change the disc, the tooth count or the blade before you quote it.
How it is priced
| Price line | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Body blanks | The round blank each body is cut from. |
| Body cutting | Outline, bore, mounting holes and expansion slots in one operation. |
| Flatten and tension | |
| PCD discs | Discs consumed across the whole order, by geometric yield. |
| Brazing | One braze operation per tip. |
| Erode and finish grind | |
| Setup |
The lines are for the whole quantity and the total takes a quantity break on larger orders. The tooth count moves the price most: it sets the tips, the brazes, the finishing and the discs.
The rates this design module ships with are examples, not your prices. Set your own at /app/design/pcd-saw-blade/settings before you quote from it.
What it produces
- Body blank DXF
- Tip and disc schedule
- Spec sheet
- STEP
Exports offers a specification and quote PDF, a cutting list CSV, a DXF, an STL, a GLB and a STEP file.
Missing today: this design module has no customer drawing.
Material from your stock
- The body sheet is matched on the steel, on exactly the plate thickness and on a sheet that covers the blank: the diameter with a cutting margin.
- The PCD disc is matched on exactly its usable diameter, its thickness and its layer.
- Where you hold no matching disc, the disc is priced from the design module's own disc rate and the cutting list says so.
- An order reserves nothing for this design module today: it reads your stock rows to price a design.
How a stock row is matched is in Stock pools and matching.
From a wizard
The PCD saw blade selector works a blade out from the machine, the material and the cut. Have this one made to order opens it here with the diameter, the bore, the kerf and plate, the teeth and the running guides already set.
What it does not make yet
The workbench and the specification sheet state its scope in these words: "This design module sets out the blade body, the tooth configuration and the PCD tipping, and prices the manufacture: body blank, tips cut from discs, brazing and finishing. It checks the geometry against manufacturing limits. It does not certify the blade for a machine's speed rating, guarantee cut quality in a given board, or select the scoring pairing for a beam saw: those stay with the application engineer and the machine manual."
- A carbide tipped, solid carbide, HSS or segmental blade: only PCD tips are built. Carbide tipped and HSS blades are the circular saw blade design module.
- A conical scoring tooth, a hollow face with an inverted V or a bevelled flat tooth: the tips held are trapezoid, flat, bevel left, bevel right and hollow.
- Irregular tooth pitch, a low noise design, laser ornaments, wiper slots, cooling elements or a tensioning ring.
- A speed rating. Spindle speed is a guide worked from the rim speed, never a maximum speed.
- A keyway in any size but the one it draws, a bore tolerance, countersunk pin holes and a choice of tip grade: the disc is chosen by size, thickness and layer.
- A regrind, a retip or a retooth, which is service work.
Related
- The workbenchOpen a design module, configure a tool, keep it as a file and find its price, materials, checks and documents.
- The design modulesKnow which design modules are built today, what each sets out and produces and which product focus each serves.
- Stock matchingLoad the stock a design module is made from and read which item covers a configuration.
- The PCD saw blade selectorSpecify a diamond tipped circular blade from the machine, the material and the cut quality, with every line naming its table.