Grinding
Superabrasive grinding wheels
Diamond or CBN wheels: a core or body plus a superabrasive rim, priced from the rim volume, the concentration and the price per carat. The core is matched from stock and the form is dressed to your drawing.
How you configure it
The parameters that define the part
A superabrasive grinding wheels configurator is a schema of parameters and your own formulas. Declare the values a request fills in, and the price follows from them.
Abrasive and bond
Diamond or CBN, on a vitrified, resin or metal bond, with the wheel shape set by its ISO form such as 1A1.
Size and rim
The outside diameter, bore and thickness fix the core, matched from your stock pool, with the rim depth and width setting the superabrasive volume.
Grit and concentration
The grit size and the concentration drive the carat count and the cost, priced at your own price per carat, with a profile dressed to your drawing.
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.
Diamond · 1A1 · 200 mm · 31.75 mm bore · 16 mm · D107 grit · C75 · single radius
- Core
- The nearest steel or alloy core at or above the diameter and bore, matched from your stock pool.
- Superabrasive rim
- The rim volume, the concentration and the grit, priced at your own price per carat.
- Process and truing
- The process time to bond the rim, plus form truing to dress the profile, on your own rates.
- Balance and setup
- An optional balance, plus your setup cost spread across the batch.
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 core is matched on diameter and bore from your stock pool, and carried as its own line in the breakdown. The superabrasive rim is the cost that varies most, so it is priced openly from the rim volume, the concentration and your price per carat, never a single opaque figure.
- 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 form 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
Superabrasive grinding wheels lean on these knowledge packs, so the request is read into structured values across the materials and applications they touch.
Superabrasive wheels grind the hard and the precise: diamond for carbide tooling, ceramics and glass, CBN for hardened steels and aerospace alloys, in the forms a tool and cutter or a surface grinder needs. The grit, concentration and bond is a different choice for each material, and the configurator keeps those choices yours to set.
The abrasives, materials, coatings and CNC knowledge packs sit beneath the work, so a request that names a grit by its code, a concentration or a wheel by its ISO form is read into the structured values the price needs.
Abrasives
Grinding wheels and superabrasives by form, grit and operating speed.
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.
- Wheel re-profiling and balancing
- A wheel is re-profiled to its form and rebalanced, priced through your own process and truing rates.
Questions
The detail, answered
- The superabrasive rim is the cost that varies most, so it is built up openly from the rim volume, the concentration and your price per carat. The core is matched from stock and carried as its own line.
- Yes. Upload a DXF form profile and it is used to price the form truing and drawn to scale on the run, so a single radius or a special profile is quoted with the form it will be dressed to.
- Yes. The abrasive sets the price per carat and the bond, and you edit both, so a diamond wheel and a CBN wheel each price from their own rates.
Quote a grinding wheel from a real request
Send an RFQ for a diamond or CBN wheel and see it configured, priced from the rim up and matched to a core.