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I'm looking for a way to combine timelapse photography and focus stacking. I've read this in the helicon docs:

"With Helicon Remote, you can combine time-lapse shooting with focus stacking and exposure bracketing. To enable such complex bracketing mode, check the relevant checkbox."

Am I understanding this right that it is possible to make a timelapse session with focus bracketing (e.g. one stack with x steps with y step size every 30 seconds total 20 stacks) and every stack will always cover the same distance (e.g. 25 cm from camera to 30 cm from camera)?

Yes, that is exactly what you can do. Each time lapse step will become a focus-bracketed stack.

Cool, thank you for the response. I just tested it, it works perfectly

One more question: When doing the timelapse it would be great to refocus before every stack. Ideally like setting a focus point for the "A" point, where before every stack it would autofocus on that point and then take X images in X intervalls starting from that point.

Is something like this possible?

There's no way to do it right now, and I don't think it can be implemented reliably. Particularly, autofocus in live view is very unreliable, I don't think this would work well.