I’ve started using one of the laser center finders and have found it gives me great results. May not be worth the cost to most people, but I’m glad I did it.
@4KENTT I am doing the opposite and going from v carving to try relief carving. Which bits do you use? Is there a “bread and butter” bit… one that I will need all of the time? In v carving you always need a 90 degree but you’ll sometimes need an 18 degree. Which is your go to bit(s)? how many bit changes are typical on a project. for you? I know lots of questions but your help would be great!
Ron i have a question for you. You seem to know alot. Its pertaining to my projects cutting off center
I am using a probe i have calibrated and measured i have set my datum to Bottom Left and X,Y turns out good but the project always seems to be shifted to the the left.
Onefinity journeyman 50
Vcarve pro
Well I’m not Ron but…
Have you check for scaling errors? If the X axis is scaling everything too small then your work will always be shifted to the left when your datum is set to bottom left.
Here is a link that explains it.
Another thing to check is the probe block settings. They could be off for the X. There is a post somewhere on that.
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Be sure your “XY” Datum offset is not checked …or at least is set to “zero”
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Thank You for that! Ive been doing that stepper test all morning and unfortunately it is right on the money. Over a span of x47in and y 31in there are no variations in the x at all and the Y was less than a 1/32" … so i tryed another test to put an X in the center of of a 9 x 7 block and it was off X axis to the right .119 and Y .08 too far passed im starting to think its Vcarve HELP!! 
Thank you ! I checked that a while back after reading this forum for hours lol
One of the things I learned from having Shaper Origin first. This method works every time.
I don’t know what the status of this message is but the thing that stands out to me is that you can’t reliably probe X and Y with a Vbit. Notice when you begin the probe operation there is a question concerning the diameter of the bit. The default is 0.25. You can enter 0.125 for a 1/8 in bit. It uses these values to calculate the corner of your material.
Use a 0.25 in bit to probe for X & Y and I think that will solve your problem.
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An add on question to this topic - anyone have issues probing for Z with a 30 or 60 degree bit with the aluminum block - any potential of damaging the tip is what I’m getting at? I’ve been using a tool setter which depressed and made me feel better about probing this way. However this recently failed and did in my 30 degree bit tip. Now I feel a bit apprehensive running such a sharp tip into the aluminum after seeing it get chipped off. I guess aluminum is much softer than carbide but still gives me pause… are folks using the block to touch off or doing it manually with paper?
Hi
I usually use the paper method as I had the same issue once forgetting to put the probe magnet on. Now I forget to disable the tool setter.
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Thanks that answered my concern as well. Thanks
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