Machining
Solid carbide and HSS round tools
End mills, drills, reamers and routers ground from solid carbide or HSS rod. Match a standard from your catalogue, or configure a special that prices itself from the cut and comes back with a dimensioned drawing.
How you configure it
The parameters that define the part
A solid carbide and hss round 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 type and substrate
Square, ball nose or corner radius end mills, drills, reamers and routers, in solid carbide or HSS. The type sets the grind path and the substrate picks the rod pool.
The cutting geometry
Cutting diameter, overall length, length of cut, flute count, helix angle and an optional corner radius. The reach to diameter ratio is checked so a long tool gets a second look.
Coating and tolerance
An uncoated tool or one of TiN, TiCN, TiAlN, AlTiN, AlCrN or DLC, plus a tolerance class that raises the grind time on the tighter bands.
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.
10 mm · 4 flutes · TiAlN coated · OAL 80 mm · LOC 30 mm · 30° helix
- Carbide rod
- The nearest rod at or above your diameter and length, matched from your stock pool.
- Grinding time
- A base grind from the diameter, plus time per flute, with an allowance for drills, reamers and corner radii.
- Coating
- Charged per tool against your coating lot minimum, so a small batch carries its share of the lot.
- Setup
- Your setup cost, spread across the batch quantity.
Lead time 12 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 configurator matches the nearest carbide or HSS rod at or above your diameter and length from your own stock pool, and carries it as its own line in the breakdown. When no rod fits, a fallback cost from the diameter and length takes over so a request never stalls.
- 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, plus a 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
Solid carbide and HSS round tools lean on these knowledge packs, so the request is read into structured values across the materials and applications they touch.
Solid round tools are the everyday cutters of a CNC shop: roughing and finishing pockets, slotting, drilling and reaming across aluminium, steel, stainless, titanium and hardened work. The right substrate, flute count, helix and coating is a different choice for each material, and the configurator keeps those choices yours to set.
Beneath the work sit the cutting, materials, coatings and CNC knowledge packs, so a request that names a coating by a trade name, a quarter inch in fractional inches or a workpiece by its grade is read into the structured values the price needs, with the original wording kept.
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.
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.
- Solid round tool regrind and recoat
- Each worn serial is priced through your regrind formula, then stripped and recoated on the same docket.
Questions
The detail, answered
- Yes. A standard end mill or drill is matched straight from your catalogue and priced from your list. A special is configured from rod stock only when no standard fits, so the quick win is never buried under the configurator.
- A side elevation with the shank, the flute zone and any neck relief or corner radius, plus an end view of the flute pattern. It is generated from the same parameters that priced the tool, so the image on the run matches what was quoted.
- Yes. An STL or STEP solid autofills the length and diameter, and a DXF supplies a profile, each read in your browser. Only the derived numbers and a file hash travel with the run.
Send a round tool request you already have
Paste in a real RFQ for end mills or drills and watch it come back as priced quote lines, with the specials configured and drawn.