Doughnut chart in Gauge chart not always set to correct axis group

gravanoc

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I'm using a few generated gauge charts that are combination pie & donut charts. To display correctly, the donut needs to be plotted on the secondary axis, but it seems completely random as to whether the code enforces that or not, so it ends up failing at the part where it references a point that is not in its series collection. It would be part of the collection if it was plotted correctly, but it seems to ignore my AxisGroup setting. Usually to fix this I have to restart Excel, but I'd prefer to know if there's another way.

VBA Code:
Sub ChartSetup(shpChart As Shape, rngFormula As Range)
    
    With shpChart
        .Height = 210
        .Width = 210
        
        With .Chart
            .HasTitle = True
            .SetElement (msoElementChartTitleCenteredOverlay)
            .SetElement (msoElementLegendNone)
            
            With .FullSeriesCollection(1)
                .ChartType = xlDoughnut
                .AxisGroup = 2  ' This should cause this FSC to be plotted on the secondary axis, but does not always work.
                
                shpChart.Chart.ChartGroups(1).DoughnutHoleSize = 70
                shpChart.Chart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 270
                
                With .Points(1).Format.Fill
                    .ForeColor.RGB = RGB(139, 0, 0)
                    .TwoColorGradient msoGradientVertical, 1
                    .GradientStops(2).Color.RGB = RGB(0, 128, 0)
                    .GradientStops.Insert RGB(255, 0, 0), 0.15
                    .GradientStops.Insert RGB(255, 165, 0), 0.3
                    .GradientStops.Insert RGB(255, 255, 0), 0.5
                    .GradientStops.Insert RGB(144, 238, 144), 0.75
                End With
                
                .Points(1).Format.Line.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 0)
                .Points(4).Format.Fill.Visible = msoFalse
                .Points(4).Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse  ' Error occurs here sometimes
            End With
            
            With .FullSeriesCollection(2)
                .ChartType = xlPie
                shpChart.Chart.ChartGroups(1).FirstSliceAngle = 270
                
                .Points(1).Format.Fill.Visible = msoFalse
                .Points(1).Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
                .Points(2).Format.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 0)
                .Points(2).Format.Line.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 0)
                .Points(3).Format.Fill.Visible = msoFalse
                .Points(3).Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
            End With
            
            shpChart.Chart.FullSeriesCollection(1).AxisGroup = 1
            shpChart.Chart.FullSeriesCollection(2).AxisGroup = 2
            
            
            With .ChartTitle
                
                DoEvents
                .Formula = "=" & rngFormula.Parent.Name & "!" & rngFormula.Address
                
                With .Format
                    .Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(50, 50, 50)
                    .Line.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(80, 184, 192)
                    .Line.Weight = 1.75

                    With .TextFrame2.TextRange
                        .ParagraphFormat.Alignment = msoAlignCenter
                        .Font.Bold = msoTrue
                        .Font.Name = "Biome"
                        .Font.Size = 14
                        .Font.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 255, 255)
                    End With
                
                End With
                
                .Top = .Top + 125
                .Formula = "=" & rngFormula.Parent.Name & "!" & rngFormula.Address
                .Left = .Left - 12.5
            End With
            
            
        End With
    End With
    
'    Stop
'    shpChart.Delete
    
End Sub
 

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