Carving simple catchall dish and trying to use bowl bit. Everything is centered in vcarve but is carving the dish out of alignment. I feel it has something to do with the way im probing XYZ as bit is not centered on corner when it goes to starting position, then carve is .25in off on the top. Im usi…

Most people use a .250 bit to probe X,Y,Z then switch to the other bit and then re-probe Z for the new tool length. It’s more time consuming but eliminates the error in how the dish bit touches off the probe. If you have a v-bit like this you can use it (you can install it upside down in the colle…

That makes sense, I will give it a shot on my next try. Thanks for the info!

@rustin40 amplifying what @WaywardWoodworker says: the X-Y finding process is about finding the center of the collet, not the center of the bit you are going to use. Any bit may not be the size it says it is. Even it it started that way, it won’t be after getting used for awhile. When I need precis…

Carved a couple dishes today and probing with my .25in endmill first then re-probing Z with bowl bit has fixed my issue. Thanks for the quick responses!

Do you still tell the machine it is a 3/4" diameter? Or 1/4" diameter?

Helpful post here: [image] Touch Probe and V-Bit Hey Mark, Usually it is not possible to probe XY with such large diameter bits, neither with V-bits. Generally for probing XY, you don’t need to use the bit you intend to use for milling. This applies only to…

Bowl bit probing

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umbert (HUBERT H.) December 6, 2024, 7:21pm 8

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Bowl bit probing

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