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I am making a part that will be machined on both sides. When the first side is finished I will flip the part. It will be located with dowel pins. How to I put a pause in the Fusion cam file between the two setups? When I post the file I get a message saying my post processor in not compatible with two WCS's?

I found the manual stop under the setup tab. That part solved.

I spoke to soon as to the manual stop. I tried a test program with a manual stop inserted and the program doesn't stop. It goes directly to the next operation. I am trying to run one side of a part and then flip it and run the same toolpath on the flip side. When I do this it just starts the second toolpath right away without any pause. What is the way to insert a pause?

Manually insert an M0 into the file.

I needed a pause in some g code for a tool that I machine and I needed some extra room to work during this pause so I so I created a macro to move the gantry out of the way and wait for me to do what I needed and to secure the part again before continuing on with the g code. Then I had CNC12 prompt me to press cycle start when I was ready to continue. Here's the two lines I added to that g code:

M56 (this is my simple macro that moves the gantry to the rear, center of the table) you can move the gantry anywhere you need to flip the part
M200 "Please secure part and press cycle start to continue" (this message can say anything you want)

Would you post your macro's so I can see how you accomplished it?

I can tomorrow as I'm away from the machine until then. There's only one macro I created, M56, the M200 is not a macro. You could simply add this to accomplish the same:

G0 X36Y143 ;set your x and y position to where you want the gantry to move to so you can flip the part
M200 "Please flip part and secure, press cycle start to continue" ;this can say whatever you type between the quotes

I just created the M56 macro to hold the coordinates so if I ever need to change the coordinates I only have to change it in one place and not in the g code for the various wrenches I cut that use this pause.

Keep in mind you can also stop and start the spindle if needed, my work during the pause takes about 10 seconds so I dont stop the spindle and it's out of reach anyway so no danger to keep it spinning.

So is it possible to use Swissi's PP with two setups? I get a message that says my selected PP is not compatible with two setups. No one has written yay or nay.

I never tried this, because instead IMHO it is better to make two programs, one with G54 and the next with G55...

Uwe