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The text answer of what you could do here to get preceding stock rest material to work, is
Insert your workholding into the same SINGLE COMPONENT part file, orienting it how it needs to hold it for each setup. So you'd essentially in your example, have a single part and then 4 vises around it
Your CAM Setup you'll select the fixture for each particular setup related to what workholding you need, then use Preceding Stock rest material checked in subsequent setups. Your part never moves, you never have to translate or copy / paste or track this. Use NC Programs posting dialog to post out each setup optimizing for minimizing tool changes, posting as many concurrent setups as you want like the Fusion 360 Sample had 4 vises on the table, and you can definitely run 'production' like this
If you want multiple parts, I find multiple work offsets to be best. Your toolpath calculation time / simulation watching time will only have to deal with single part, all parts will come out exact, unless a tool breaks etc (can do checks on that too if you want)
But you have a choice, can rely on modeling everything, aligning, translating, rotating to visually represent ALL of your 4 setups simultaneously, or use single part location instead orienting the workholding with preceeding stock, but yes these options are within themselves nearly fully INcompatible with each other
Happy to help talk you through this on like a video call or something as well, lmk
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