Machining
End mills, drills, inserts, reamers and taps, matched to your catalogue with the geometry that matters. Specials configured from rod stock, parts priced from a 3D model or a 2D profile, regrinds priced from your own rules.
HX4F-010-TA
10 mm 4 flute square endmill TiAlN
Unit price
£51.87unit
What you make
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.
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.
Explore solid carbide and hss round toolsSteel 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.
Explore pcd-tipped round toolsGear 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.
Explore gear cutting toolsParts machined to your 3D model or 2D drawing. Upload an STL or STEP solid and the geometry sets the price, or send a flat profile and the cut itself does, with the part drawn to scale on the run.
Explore custom machined partsTurning, 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.
See it on the Design EngineerThe request
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.
Can you quote the following please, needed by 26th June: 10 off 10mm 4FL carbide endmill AlTiN coated, LOC 30 min
RFQ-2026-aero.pdfEvery value cited. Missing details become questions, never guesses.
Matched, priced and quoted nextSpecials
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.
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.
From a 3D model
Some parts are quicker to send than to describe. Upload the model of the part you want machined and let the geometry set the price.
Upload an STL or a STEP solid and the configurator reads its volume, its bounding box and a complexity score, then prices the material and the machining time from your own rate per cubic centimetre, a setup fee and a complexity allowance. It is the right path for the part a customer draws once and needs made: a one off jig plate, a fixture body, an adapter block or a bracket, where there is no catalogue line to match.
The bracket on the right measures 120 cm³ in a 100 by 60 by 20 mm envelope and prices at £174.00 on a ten day lead, with a rule that blocks anything past your 600 mm machining envelope before it is quoted. The metrics drive the price, so a heavier or busier part costs more without anyone retyping a figure.
Analysis runs in your browser. Only the derived numbers and a file hash travel with the run, so the model stays on your machine until you choose to attach it. The full behaviour lives in the Design Engineer.
Machined part from 3D model
Geometry pricedAccepts STL, DXF or STEP.
Pricing formula
round(volume_cm3 * 0.85 + 45 + complexity * 0.9, 2)
Configured price
Lead time 10 days
Illustrative rates. Analysis runs in your browser; only the derived numbers and a file hash are sent.
From a 2D profile
Plenty of machined work starts as a flat part. Upload the drawing and the cut itself sets the price.
A gasket, a mounting plate, a cover, a shim or a gusset cut from sheet or plate is priced from its DXF. The configurator measures the cut length, counts the pierces and works out the material area, then prices the part from your cut rate, your pierce fee and your material cost, and draws the uploaded outline to scale so the shape on screen is the one being quoted. The plate on the left is 300 by 200 mm in 10 mm steel, six pierces and 2.4 m of cut, at £68.82.
The same 2D profile upload runs across the platform. A profile drill is ground to an uploaded form, a form grinding wheel is dressed to a drawing, and a machine knife is ground to its outline, each reading a DXF the same way and drawing the part it priced.
Servicing
Machining is more than new tools. The sample organisation seeds these three service templates, each priced through the same engine as a quote.
Knowledge core
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.
Paste in a real RFQ for end mills, drills or a special and watch it come back as priced quote lines, cited to the source.