Circle Project How to?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

There are a couple of possible approaches:

• use a circle finder to mark the center and then use a pointy tool to manually set zero at that point — while not done for a circular piece of stock, this is shown in:

Making a guitar bridge for Carbide Create Pro

as requested on support… Given a file in Carbide Create which describes a guitar bridge: [image] there are a couple of different ways which this part could be made: draw up contour geometry and assign toolpaths to appropriate depths (note that this does not require Carbide Create Pro): Spoon Possible without CC Pro? model the design in a traditional CAD tool, export it as an STL and then import that STL into Carbide Create Pro and then cut that 3D model using Carbide Create Pro: Instru…

• get the positions of the edge along each axis and do the math to get the center — this is fraught with the possibility of error, and I wouldn’t recommend it unless you then verify the math carefully

• secure a sacrificial blank and machine a pocket just a bit larger than the circle which has the origin set at the center, then secure the circular stock in the center of the machined feature — this is probably the best option