I realise this feels like a repeated post but I have been through endless “bowl” posts and they pretty much all say it is impossible in CC Pro. All of them talk about Fusion and Vectric but I want to use CC Pro.
I was wondering how to do it. My steps so far are
Add a 3d roughing toolpath
At this point all I get is a strange upside down bowl at the bottom of my wood.
there’s a checkbox to invert the meaning of the colors on the screen where you add the PNG…
In order to subtract you have to start with a component to subtract from:
Attached.
bowlsample.c2d (1.8 MB)
Oh I seeeeeee, thank you!
Whilst we are here, my roughing toolpath (tool 201) takes 225 minutes based on exactly your model and hardwood. There is a lot of stuff on bits 
. but are there any “quick wins” that reduce this noticeably?
I have a surfacing bit which is like a giant propeller. Assuming I knew how to add this to CC (another mystery), would that be a potential solution?
it means your depth of cut is likely waaay low… can easily be 0.08" with this bit
I think a ball-nosed endmill will cut this more quickly — run a separate Pocket toolpath to surface w/ a #201.
For adding tools see: Adding tools in CC440 and later
Thanks for helping me out. Here is result of an old cross grain chipping board turned into a bowl. I pretty much sat and stared at the machine for 2 hours!!
Now to work out how to carve the underside…
Should just be a matter of offset geometry and some slightly different dimensions. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
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