Can it quote a special end mill, or only what is already in my catalogue?

Both. A stocked tool matches from your catalogue with an auditable fit rating and a price. A special is configured from cutting diameter, overall length, length of cut, flute count, helix angle, an optional corner radius and a coating. The grind time follows from that geometry, the nearest carbide rod at or above your size is matched from your own stock pool, and the price comes back itemised with a dimensioned drawing.

What does it do when the request does not state the coating or the tolerance?

It asks. Every value it extracts carries the span of the request it came from, so you can check it against the customer's own words. A value the request never states stays blank and becomes a clarification on the quote, rather than a plausible number nobody can source.

Do I have to retype my catalogue before any of this works?

No. A CSV or a spreadsheet imports against a typed schema: headers are auto-mapped on their synonyms and types are coerced and reported on the first 500 rows before anything is written. A stopped import resumes where it left off. A PDF price list is read by the same engine that reads a customer request, with every extracted value cited to its page.

Does it price regrinds, or only new tools?

Both, from one set of rules. The same formula engine that prices a new special prices the regrind when that tool comes back worn, and each worn serial is registered so its history travels with it. Toolholder taper restoration and on-site maintenance visits work the same way, from templates you edit.

Machining

Cutting tools, quoted like an application engineer

End mills, drills, inserts, reamers and taps, matched to your catalogue with the geometry that matters. Specials configured from rod stock, one-off parts read straight from the enquiry, regrinds priced from your own rules.

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10 mm endmill TiAlN

HX4F-010-TA

10 mm 4 flute square endmill TiAlN

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⌀10 mm4 flutesTiAlN

Unit price

£51.87unit

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What you make

The machining categories Kabaido configures

Machining covers the broadest range of made-to-order work. Each category below has its own configurator, its own drawing engine and its own dedicated page, all priced through the rules you control.

All dimensions in millimetres · Not to scale · Coated TiAlN

Solid carbide and HSS round tools

End mills, drills, reamers and routers ground from solid carbide or HSS rod. The configurator derives the grind time, matches the nearest rod in stock and returns a price with a dimensioned drawing.

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All dimensions in millimetres · Not to scale · PCD end mill · Silver braze

PCD-tipped round tools

Steel or carbide bodies with brazed PCD tips for non ferrous, composite and abrasive work. Tips nest from a disc, the body matches from stock, and the run exports a PCD nest alongside the drawing.

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All dimensions in millimetres · Not to scale · Module 3, pressure angle 20° · Ground to accuracy class A · Coated TiN

Gear cutting tools

Gear hobs, shaper cutters and shaving cutters in HSS, PM-HSS or carbide. The blank matches on diameter and length, the module and gash count drive the grind, and an optional special form imports from a drawing.

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All dimensions in millimetres · Not to scale · Profile as uploaded; pierce points marked

Custom machined parts

Parts machined to your customer's drawing. The enquiry is read line by line, with the sizes, materials, grades and tolerances carried word for word and cited to where they appeared, and the line lands on the quote for you to price.

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Indexable tooling

Turning, milling and drilling bodies that take indexable inserts. Indexable tooling is catalogue and knowledge here rather than a configurator, so a request matches against your typed range and resolves the right insert seat.

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The request

How a tool request becomes a quote

A request comes in as an email, a spreadsheet or a PDF. Kabaido reads it, matches each line to your catalogue and returns priced quote lines, with every value cited to where it came from.

Structured requestIntent: Quote

Email · Dave HutchinsRFQ - tooling for new aerospace job

Can you quote the following please, needed by 26th June: 10 off 10mm 4FL carbide endmill AlTiN coated, LOC 30 min

RFQ-2026-aero.pdf

L110×10 mm 4 flute carbide endmill, AlTiN, LOC 30 mm min
L25×6 mm 2 flute ball nose endmill, uncoated
L320×6.35 mm (1/4 in) 3 flute square endmill, TiAlN
L44×ER32 collet 6 mm

Every value cited. Missing details become questions, never guesses.

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Specials

Grind a special from rod stock, priced to the cut

When no standard tool fits, a configurator builds the special from your parameters, matches the nearest carbide rod in stock and returns an itemised price with a dimensioned drawing.

The endmill configurator takes a cutting diameter, an overall length, a length of cut, a flute count, a helix angle, an optional corner radius and a coating. From those it derives the grind minutes, eighteen plus six a flute with an allowance for a necked tool, and prices the labour on top of the blank. The nearest carbide rod at or above your diameter and length is matched from your stock pool and carried as its own line, with a fallback price when no rod fits.

Nothing is invented. A length to diameter over twenty five to one raises a warning so someone reviews the reach before it commits, and a missing parameter is asked for rather than guessed. The 10 mm four flute special on the left matches rod CR-10-080, grinds and coats to TiAlN and prices at £173.36 on a twelve day lead.

Every rate and rule is yours to edit. The same formula engine that prices this special prices the regrind when the tool comes back worn, so a made-to-order tool and a service share one set of rules. The full configurator lives in the Design Engineer.

Custom carbide endmill

This is the part

10 mm4 fluteTiAlN

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Run total

£173.36

Lead time 12 days

Matched stock CR-10-080

Carbide rod 10 x 80 h6£11.40
Ground and coated to your spec
Configured price£173.36

Illustrative rates.

The drawing comes with the price

A drawing-enabled configurator renders the tool to scale on every run, generated from the same parameters that priced it.

The side elevation shows the shank, the flute zone with its helix traces and any neck relief or corner radius; the end view shows the flute pattern. The drawing is deterministic, so the image saved on the run is the one the engineer approved on screen, and it travels with the configured line onto the quote PDF, the email and the customer portal.

End mills, profile drills, PCD saw blades and plate parts each ship with their own drawing engine, so a special is quoted with a drawing as quickly as a stocked tool is quoted from the shelf.

All dimensions in millimetres · Not to scale · Coated TiAlN

Servicing

Regrinds, restoration and visits, priced from your templates

Machining is more than new tools. The sample organisation seeds these three service templates, each priced through the same engine as a quote.

Endmill regrind and recoat: Each worn serial is priced through your regrind formula, then stripped and recoated on the same docket.
Toolholder taper restoration and balancing: Taper wear and balance grade drive the price, with inspection free to reprice before the work runs.
Machine preventative maintenance visit: An on-site visit priced from your rate card, scheduled against the machine on the register.

Knowledge core

The packs beneath the work

The knowledge packs beneath the work are part of the full AEI categorisation: seven categories, fifteen packs, applied per request. Machining leans on the highlighted packs.

Inside the knowledge packs

8 of 15 packs

Kabaido reads the whole world your customers buy, not one product line.

CuttingEndmills, drills and the coatings, flutes and lengths that define them.
WorkholdingToolholders, collets and vices, read across every taper and clamping system.
AbrasivesGrinding wheels and dressing sticks by form, grit and safe operating speed.
CNCMachines and spares, matched on taper, spindle speed and tool capacity.
MetrologyMicrometers, calipers and gauges with the right range and resolution.
CoatingsCoating jobs by type and thickness, with strip and recoat understood.
MaterialsBar, stock and grades with condition and the certificates that ship with them.
FluidsCoolants and oils by type and pack size, with hard regulatory limits respected.

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Questions

What tooling suppliers ask first

: Both. A stocked tool matches from your catalogue with an auditable fit rating and a price. A special is configured from cutting diameter, overall length, length of cut, flute count, helix angle, an optional corner radius and a coating. The grind time follows from that geometry, the nearest carbide rod at or above your size is matched from your own stock pool, and the price comes back itemised with a dimensioned drawing.
: It asks. Every value it extracts carries the span of the request it came from, so you can check it against the customer's own words. A value the request never states stays blank and becomes a clarification on the quote, rather than a plausible number nobody can source.
: No. A CSV or a spreadsheet imports against a typed schema: headers are auto-mapped on their synonyms and types are coerced and reported on the first 500 rows before anything is written. A stopped import resumes where it left off. A PDF price list is read by the same engine that reads a customer request, with every extracted value cited to its page.
: Not from a 3D model: there is no upload that measures a solid and prices it from its volume. What does work is the request. A one-off described in an enquiry is read line by line, with the sizes, materials, grades and tolerances carried word for word and cited to where they appeared, and the line lands on the quote as a line of its own for you to price. Where the part follows a pattern you make repeatedly, the Design Engineer prices it from its parameters and draws it to scale, with DXF, STL and STEP out of the same run.
: Both, from one set of rules. The same formula engine that prices a new special prices the regrind when that tool comes back worn, and each worn serial is registered so its history travels with it. Toolholder taper restoration and on-site maintenance visits work the same way, from templates you edit.

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