# Home bit location

**URL:** <https://community.inventables.com/t/home-bit-location/119527>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 26, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-bit-location/119527 "2021-06-26T23:33:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![RichardAbernathy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@RichardAbernathy](https://community.inventables.com/u/RichardAbernathy)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-bit-location/119527/1 "2021-06-26T23:33:33Z")

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I just started with my first carve. I thought I had my bit in the correct location to start carving. But it wasn’t so my carve was not centered. So if someone could help me that would be awesome.

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**Author:** ![WayneHall](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/waynehall/32/84646_2.png) [@WayneHall](https://community.inventables.com/u/WayneHall)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-bit-location/119527/2 "2021-06-27T02:00:56Z")

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Welcome to the forums Richard. If you are starting in the lower laft corner you need to center the bit right over that corner.

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**Author:** ![TimLoughman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@TimLoughman](https://community.inventables.com/u/TimLoughman)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-bit-location/119527/3 "2021-06-27T06:08:00Z")

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Welcome, you can place the work piece anywhere on the waste board. You just need to tell the CNC where it’s starting from.

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**Author:** ![KevinAnderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@KevinAnderson](https://community.inventables.com/u/KevinAnderson)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/home-bit-location/119527/4 "2021-06-27T21:38:59Z")

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Richard,  
Tim and Wayne are both correct. I have been carving for a while now and this still happens to me now and then. If I need the carve to be perfectly centered, and the project permits, I use a center start rather than a corner start. Just a suggestion but that typically works for me.