I didn’t want to change the method you are using, I just wanted to mention that you are doing it more complicated than necessary 
I understood that you are manually moving your project center to the place where the laser has been positioned. Like this:
But if you use the options I mentioned, both positions ARE already identical, no movement of any shape in your project is required.
It might be a little hard to imagine because it looks like two different origins in the workspace view, but in machine coordinates, both are the same.
This just saves you from a few steps in your procedure You only need step 1 and step 7