Part in. Plan out.

From a part file to a plan you can cut.

Quads reads a STEP file, a drawing or a photo, works out the setups and the operations, picks the cutters, prices the job and writes the program — then checks the program back against the part.

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bracket-arm.step

Reading the part

⚑ Thin wall 0.8 mm — watch deflection

Setups2

Features4

Cutters3

Machine time18 min

Quote$152.40

G90 G54 G17 G21
T2 M6 (1/4in flat)
G0 X0 Y0 Z10.0
G1 Z-2.5 F800
G1 X240 Y0 F1600
G1 X240 Y80
G0 Z10.0

✓ Read-back verified

One part, end to end.

Twenty-four seconds, start to finish, on a real bracket. The file goes in, the setups get planned, the thin wall gets flagged, the job gets costed, the program gets written — and then the program gets checked back against the part.

Reads the part Plans the setups Flags what will bite Costs the job Writes the program Verifies it back

One file in. Six things out.

Most tools stop at one of these. A quoting engine gives you a price and no program. A CAM package writes a program but needs someone to drive it. Quads takes the part from end to end, and every step is derived from the geometry rather than typed in.

The setup plan

How many setups, what gets cut in each, and where the part has to be flipped — worked out from the features, not from a template.

Problems, before cutting

Thin walls, deep pockets, awkward holes — flagged with the reason, while it's still cheap to change something.

The cutter list

Every operation resolved to a specific cutter, and every cutter resolved to a real part number you can order against.

The cost

Material, setup and machine time, built up from the plan rather than guessed at a rate per kilo.

The program

G-code with the tool changes, depths and feeds, generated from the same plan that produced the quote.

The check

The program is read back and compared against the part it came from, so the code and the model agree before anything runs.

Thirty years of picking cutters, written into the engine.

Knowing a job needs a 10 mm flat end mill is the easy half. Knowing which one, in which grade, for Inconel at that depth of cut, is the part that takes a career.

Quads is built on Prosec, a cutting-tool business that has been solving exactly that problem for Indian manufacturers for three decades — including Bharat Forge, Cummins, BHEL, Mahindra and Tata. The engine specifies the cutter. Prosec supplies it, and regrinds it when it's worn.

TitaniumInconelStainlessMonel

The materials where guessing the tooling is expensive.

Every cutter resolves to something you can order

Each operation is matched against the catalogues Prosec carries — checking the geometry agrees and that there's a real part number behind it — so what comes back is a tool list you can buy, not a shopping brief.

Where a cutter isn't something we carry, you still get the full specification — diameter, geometry, grade, reach — so you can order it anywhere. We'd rather tell you that than steer the plan towards what's on our shelf.

AvantecMK ToolsDiatoolPokolm InovaToolsHaimerVanduritGewefa K+GJ. Bauer

Some of the tooling principals behind the catalogue.

Generated code you can actually run.

The reasonable objection to automatic programming is that nobody wants to find out it was wrong when the tool is already in the material. So the program doesn't just get written — it gets read back and checked against the part it came from.

Every step shows its working: which feature drove which operation, which operation called which cutter, and why the plan is in the order it's in. If you disagree with a decision, you can see the one to change.

What we don't claim

A geometric match to a catalogue is a match — not a stock check, not a quotation, and not a promise from the manufacturer. Where a figure is measured we say so, and where a sample doesn't represent a real order book we say that too.

The engine flags what it can't resolve rather than filling the gap with something plausible. On a shop floor, a confident wrong answer costs more than an honest gap.

Maintaining original geometries and performance.

Prosec runs its own regrinding facility, so a cutter Quads specified doesn't end its life in a scrap bin. It comes back, gets returned to its original geometry and recoated with a global premium coating partner, and goes out again. You keep running the same parameters you always did — with shorter processing times, you hold fewer tools in stock.

Prosec regrinding facility — The regrinding facility, Pune

Precision regrinding in progress — Precision regrinding to original geometry

Vollmer grinding machine — Vollmer and Zoller machines on the floor

Precision regrindingReturned to original geometry, not approximately sharpened.

Premium recoatingThrough a tie-up with a global coating partner.

Quick turnaroundShort processing times, so you stock fewer spares.

On-site technical supportEngineers who come to the machine, not just the phone.

Quality assuranceMeasured on Zoller equipment before it goes back out.

Any manufacturerCarbide milling cutters, drills, reamers, saw blades — and specials to drawing.

Why this matters beyond the cost

A tool that comes back tells us how the tool we chose actually performed — how it wore, how long it lasted, and whether the plan asked too much of it. That goes back into the engine, so the next part of the same kind gets a better answer.

Quads specifies

The engine picks the cutter for the material, the feature and the depth of cut.

Prosec supplies

The tool ships against a real part number from the catalogue we carry.

The job runs

The tool does the work it was chosen for, in your machine, on your part.

It comes back

Reground, recoated, measured — and how it wore feeds the next specification.

Latest-generation Zoller and Vollmer machines. Regrinding is a Prosec service — see the facility.

Send us a part you're already running.

Pick something in production now. We'll send back the setup plan, the cutter list with part numbers, the cost and the program — and you can hold every one of them against what your shop actually does today. One file is enough.

Call us to send a part See what comes back

No account and nothing to install. If the part is confidential, say so and we'll sign whatever you need first.