When possible it is best to measure several radii from a tree.
If you want to calculate an average for each ring width from these radii measurements, here is how to do it:

First measure your radii with CooRecorder so you have, say three coordinate files (.pos files)

In CDendro, create a new empty collection with Collections/Create new collection. This will automatically be the target collection.

Use the command "Samples/Open coordinate file" to open your coordinate files from that same tree - you can do that in one operation if you select all the files in the "Open-window". (To select several files: Hold down the control-key and click successively on several file names.)

Run correlation tests for these files to find out how they match and add them successively to your collection.

Save the collection as a collection file (.fil extension) as documentation.
Note: The .fil format for collections is a "reference format", i.e. it points to those files that should be included in the collection, in this case your .pos files. This means that if you change a .pos file and then open the .fil collection file again, your changes will pop up within your collection. This is in contrast to e.g. the .rwl and .fh formats where the ring width data is copied into the .rwl file.

See that "No DeTrending" is selected and click the button "Create mean value sample"

In the new sample window, use the menu command "Samples/Save ring width data as" to get a .wid file with the averaged ring width values - i.e. with mean values of the ring widths. There are also menu commands to save ring widths in .rwl format or in .fh format. Though then you first have to set a dating year to your mean value sample. (Use the button Set date of youngest ring on the Workbench tab or set a year dating to your collection before you create the mean value sample.)

Note: You may prefer to save the collection in a decadal file to save your original ring width data for documentation. In that case you first have to set a year-date to the collection. If you have not dated your sample yet, you can use a year-number from the future, e.g. year 4000.

Note: Since CDendro version 7.5 (May 2012) there is a separate menu command to "collapse" a multi-radii collection of several trees into a collection where each tree is only represented by one member. Though this command "Collections/Save as New collection with members summed by stem" requires that you follow a file naming convention (described below) which will tell CDendro which series (which .pos file) belong to which tree. See the section "More on multi radii collections below".

Note: You do not have to calculate mean value curves for each tree and then add these to a collection consisting of e.g. only mean values. You can as well add all your radii directly to a collection.

To let CDendro know which radius comes from which tree, you should carefully select the identities of your samples.
Five samples from 2 different trees could be named NM01A, NM01B, NM02A, NM02B1, NM02B2.
The identity for a tree should end with a digit. An optional following letter indicates a radius.
One radius may be divided into two samples if they are named e.g. NM02B1 and NM02B2.)

Please note, when you calculate the mean value from this collection the checkbox "Sum by stem" should be checked!
Then an "X-column" is shown to the right of the sample identities. When there is an X in that column it means that CDendro "understands" that this sample refers to the same tree as that on the previous row when the rows are sorted by MemberID.
(For sorting: Click on any column header repeatedly to sort by the content of that column in ascending or descending order.)

If you then click on the Time lines diagram button (top right) with "Sum by stem" unchecked (see the arrow marked "1") you will get a time lines diagram showing where all your radii are located on the time line. Please note that the series are here sorted by their names.

If you now check "Sum by stem" and click the Time lines diagram button again, the time lines diagram will "collapse" and show only one line for each tree, see below!

When CDendro calculates the series for a tree, it calculates each ring width as a plain mean value from all available radii from that tree. There is no detrending related to this process - it is only a process of calculating an average for each ring width of the tree.

Multi curve diagrams:"Collection: Plot all members-button-diagram": Vertical rulers available by checkboxes and their tooltips. This ease to check synchronization between curves. Two rulers above show the years 1940 and 1959 - two very dry summers almost without rain. The plot-all-members button is found near the CDendro top-left corner of your collection to the right of and at the bottom of the Select-as-target-collection button.

Note: Use the CDendro Settings/Plotting window settings frame to adjust the height of the plot window. Use the Curve separation and Curve height controls under the plot diagram (not shown above) for curve separation and height adjustments.

Note: You can copy the image by clicking the "Copy curves to clipboard"-button and then paint that image into a document.

Note: Vertical rulers: Vertical rulers are vertical lines crossing the curve diagram. They can be placed either at a certain year or anchored in the current reference curve. The corresponding year number is always printed at the top of the ruler. If you check "Settings/Plotting window settings/Print ring width for each ruler" you will get also the ring width printed below the year number. This might be useful for demonstrations or documentation.