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Design a solid round tool

Set out a solid carbide round tool, see the rod and the price at each quantity and put it on a quote for a customer.

Updated 11 November 2026

On this page
Why
A special round tool cannot be quoted until its rod, its grinding and its coating are worked out.
How
Open Design, choose the tool type, set the values and add the tool to a quote for a customer.

This page describes the round tool screen, which a workspace set up on the round tool engine opens as its Design area. In any other workspace the carbide endmills design module opens in the workbench.

Choose the tool

One engine draws every tool type: end mill, drill, step drill, reamer, counterbore, countersink and profile cutter. Choosing a type sets its end form, flutes, helix and lengths as a starting point and names the tool on its drawing and quote. Every value can then be changed.

  • A step drill and a counterbore are set by their steps. Under Steps from the tip, type each diameter and the length it runs for; the largest is the cutting diameter.
  • A shank the same size as the cut follows the cutting diameter when it changes. A shank set apart, as on a necked tool, is left alone.
  • A form can be a standard form, a drawing or a DXF. See Geometry and price.

The values

The values sit in groups down the side, each closed to a one line summary until you open it. A value that fails keeps its group open with the reason beside it. The quantity sits beside the customer. The rod is never typed: Kabaido chooses it.

What the tool needs, costs and produces

PaneWhat it shows
StockThe rods this quantity would come from, as things stand, after what open quotes hold.
PricingThe price each and in total at each quantity, with the rod as In stock, Part stock, a supplier's lead time or No rod. Breakdown opens the price lines and the complexity points step by step.
ExportsThe quote, the engineering drawing, the works drawing, STEP and STL.

The price is never worked out on the screen. Every change goes to the one calculation on the server, which How a round tool is priced sets out.

Put it on a quote

  1. Step 1.

    Set the quantity and choose the customer. New customer adds one. The price applies that customer's own terms.

  2. Step 2.

    Press Add to quote. Choose a new quote for that customer or one of the open drafts. A sent quote is fixed: requote it to add to it.

  3. Step 3.

    The line now holds the rods it was priced on while the quote is open. Change the tool and press Update the line to reprice it in its place.

  4. Step 4.

    Press Another tool for the next line on the same quote. Open quote goes to it.

A line on a quote that is sent or replaced is locked. Copy as a new design starts a fresh design from it. What happens to the quote next is in Quotes and orders.

Keep a design

Save to the catalogue keeps the design under the name it earns from its own values. The catalogue holds the design and never a price: the tool is priced again, live, when it next goes on a quote. Search the catalogue reopens one. Start a fresh design returns to the defaults.

A design that is on no quote and not in the catalogue lives nowhere else. Leaving it asks first, because it will be lost.

When it cannot be priced

A value outside its range, a rule that blocks or a tool no rod can make gives no price. The screen says which. Nothing is quoted around a block: change the tool until it can be made.

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