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Hi, yes, that's correct (I thought I had used that term a few times in both the title and the description actually?)

 

To try and explain again, the key point:

- The machine has a fixed point defined on it, say G59 is the zero point fixture origin

- I want to create my machining setup such that the WCS is a point *on* the part itself. As an example, lets say I want to use G54 with the WCS based on a corner on the underside of the part

- (Reasons this is beneficial were discussed in the original post, but lets assume $reasons are compelling for the moment)

- The question is how to initialise the location of G54? 

- Note that the CAD model is assumed to exist and show the relative locations of G59 and G54, so we can click the measure tool and ask it for the incremental distances between those 2 points (in fact that is my current process today, I then manually type these into a manual NC command). However, the manual offset/translate process is potentially error prone and would not automatically update if the model changes

 

So the proposal is to add such an operation into the Fusion machining GUI. The workflow/UI would actually be quite similar to a probing operation. However, there won't be any real probing done, it's simply a workflow to establish the G54 WCS as being offset relatively from the G59 workspace (both arbitrary choices and only examples)