Abstract: Device for mutually positioning tools in a cutting machine for vegetables, which cutting machine includes a machine housing, wherein in the upper part of the machine housing cutting tools are arranged to be mounted around an axis which is driven by a motor arranged in the machine housing, wherein the upper part of the machine housing is shaped as a trough, running along the periphery of the cutting tool, which trough has a bottom out from which the axis protrudes upwards and which trough is arranged to collect cut vegetables and which trough is provided with a radially directed output channel for cut vegetables. Two or more cooperating tool parts are provided, each tool part being supported directly or indirectly by one of two or several steps, arranged at a distance from each other and formed on one and the same machine element.