Help with positioning circular progress bars

I’m new to circular progress bars. I thought I had figured out how to get them positioned and lined up how I want. However, I’m having an issue where the position and curvature changes when I adjust the angular distance to size it how I want.

For example, here’s a sample where the full circle progress bar is centered and the curve of the progress bar matches the curve of the watch face. If I move the hour hand around in a circle, it has the same distance to the progress bar all the way around (confirming the progress bar is circular and centered).

But when I shorten the angular distance to make the progress bar the size I actually want it to be, the progress bar shifts its position (it now overlaps the numeral 10) and the curvature (I’m sure there’s a better word for this) no longer matches the watch face. It’s subtle, but if I move the hour hand around, the gap between the hour hand and the progress bar increases the further clockwise it goes. This is even after I recenter the pivot point.

I can manually move the progress bar so it is back where I want it, but how do I fix the curvature? I’m confused as to why changing the angular distance would cause this behavior.

See where it says Curving, and its 275 by 275? That’s where you fix that.

If your progress bar had the desired radius before you reduced its angular distance, its “curvature”, or better say radius, remains the same. What changes, is its position. You have to first reposition it so that its inner pivot point matches its original position and only then rotate it around it.

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Thank you, now it makes sense to me. It’s a frustrating process, …it would be a lot easier if adjusting the angular distance only shortened/lengthened the progress bar and did not move things around. But, this works and is understandable.

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I totally agree with you.

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