Machining
PCD-tipped round tools
Steel or carbide bodies with brazed PCD tips, EDM cut and ground to an edge, for non ferrous, composite, plastic and abrasive work. The body is matched from stock, the tips are priced and packed, and the layout exports as a nest.
How you configure it
The parameters that define the part
A pcd-tipped 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.
Body and construction
A steel or carbide body, full nib or brazed segment construction, with the body matched from your stock pool on diameter and length.
PCD tips
Tip count, PCD grade and tip size drive the diamond cost and the EDM and braze time. The tip layout is packed to your kerf and packing efficiency.
Edge and finish
A ground or EDM finished edge, with an optional coating, each priced through your own rates per minute.
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 · 2 PCD tips · medium 10 µm grade · OAL 90 mm · carbide body
- Body blank
- The nearest carbide or steel body at or above your diameter, matched from your stock pool.
- PCD tips
- The diamond cost from the tip size and grade, packed to your kerf and packing efficiency.
- EDM and braze
- Per tip cut time and edge EDM time per flute, plus the braze, on your own rates per minute.
- Setup
- Your setup cost, spread across the batch quantity.
Lead time 14 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 body is matched from your stock pool, and the tip layout is packed to your kerf and packing efficiency so a sheet of PCD yields as many tips as it can. The packed layout exports as a nest, so the cut file is ready alongside the 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 tip 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
PCD-tipped round tools lean on these knowledge packs, so the request is read into structured values across the materials and applications they touch.
PCD tools earn their place where carbide wears too fast: aluminium and aluminium alloys, carbon and glass fibre composites, MDF and chipboard, plastics and other abrasive non ferrous work. The tip grade and count is a balance of edge life and finish, and the configurator keeps that balance yours to set.
The cutting, materials, coatings and abrasives knowledge packs sit beneath the work, so a request that names a composite, a tip grade in microns or a non ferrous alloy 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.
Abrasives
Grinding wheels and superabrasives by form, grit and operating speed.
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.
- PCD tool re-tip and regrind
- A worn PCD tool is re-tipped and reground, priced from the tips up through the same engine as a new tool.
Questions
The detail, answered
- From the tip size and grade, packed to your kerf and packing efficiency. A bigger tip or a finer grade costs more, and a tighter pack yields more tips from a sheet, with every rate yours to edit.
- Yes. The packed tip layout exports as a nest, so the file the EDM needs is ready alongside the quote. The body is matched from your stock pool and carried as its own line.
- Yes. A DXF tip profile is read in your browser and drawn to scale on the run, so the shape on screen is the one being quoted.
Quote a PCD special from a real request
Send an RFQ for a PCD end mill or router and see it configured, priced from the tips up and nested for the cut.