CNC cutting tools: what buyers should name
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A cutting-tool request should identify the tool, not ask this site to choose a machining program. Cutting speed, feed and depth of cut belong to the buyer’s process and are not stated here.
Name the tool
- Tool family: drill, end mill, tap, reamer, insert or another named type.
- Size, in millimetres unless your drawing uses another unit. State the unit.
- Shank or machine interface, if the tool has to fit a holder you already use.
- Tool material or coating only if your drawing or current tool names it.
- The workpiece material in the supplier’s words, such as the grade you machine.
ISO 513 is a classification, not a promise
ISO 513:2012 classifies hard cutting materials, including hardmetals, ceramics, diamond and boron nitride, for machining by chip removal, and it designates application groups. If your drawing already uses an ISO 513 designation, copy that designation into the request. This page does not assign a group to a job, and a listing does not claim to meet ISO 513 unless the quotation says so against that standard.
Read the scope on the ISO 513:2012 catalogue entry. The standard’s text is the ISO publication, not this summary.
What we will not fill in for you
Do not expect a quote page to choose geometry, coating or cutting data. Ask the quotation to state the exact tool it offers and the designation it is offered against. Related listings sit in Industrial consumables and MRO & general supplies. If the tool is not listed, use a sourcing request.
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Sources
- ISO 513:2012 — Classification and application of hard cutting materials — International Organization for Standardization
- Special Publication 811: Guide for the Use of the International System of Units — National Institute of Standards and Technology