Diameter wood

[ThomasJBarnaby]

I have a 17 inch round wood that I want to carve, how do I set zero on it ?

[Joe4re]

I would find center and work from there

[RogerMayers]

They do have circle centering tools which allows you to mark the center, I have one deigned here: Easel - Circle Center Finder

[DrewKasel]

See the videos and images in this thread for tips on this.

Setting a different home position in easel

Easel always treat its X0Y0 grid to be Home Position (work zero) (Do NOT confuse home position with homing) Work zero can be anywhere within the reachable area of your machine, but in terms on Easel and work zero, the X0Y0 grid is where work zero need to be established. [Easel-Zero] Easel will only preview the project in its 1st quadrant, but any quadrant can be used as long as its reachable by the machine. [Easel-Zero-quad] If you want to set work zero at the center of your design, your…

[BrandonR_Parker]

A fairly easy method is to draw a chord in the circle … say 8" across. Then draw a perpendicular line from the exact middle of that chord through the center of the circle. You can then repeat this a few times around the circle and where the perpendicular lines meet should be the exact center of the circle. I would recommend at least three to get a good reference.

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[CharleyThomas]

Then there is always this option in the Triquetra Tool Box

[CharleyThomas]

Or if you use Easel, Select the Left Front Corner XYZ with Offset option and enter the Radius of your circle as the Offsett value for the X and Y axis.