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I'm in the process of designing a new screenset and would like to have the feed rate and spindle rate DRO's to display in whole numbers - without the 10th's (0.0) decimal point. Being a showfieldnumber ( 868, 867, 869, 870) they aren't editable with the screen editor. Not sure what the advantage is of having feed and spindle rates display to 0.0 but the 10th's decimal place changes too fast and is unreadable while running G-code and not useful.

The UCCNC formats those numbers that way, this is done internally in the UCCNC, so you can't change those DROs' numbers format.
What workaround I see is if you will place those DROs offscreen and make your own DRO and make a macro which reads the original DROs and cuts the 10th digit down and writes the string to your own DRO.
Then you can place this macro into a macro loop, so the macro will continously read the original DRO and writes your own DROs with the truncated number.

CT63, feed rate I understand, but not spindle speed. Remember that the machines using UCCNC can run using imperial units as well, and some times you might need to use feed rates slower than 1in/min, which is 25.4mm/min. I am definitely using less than that for probing, and some times even for jogging, so if I used inches, I would like to have the ability to set even the decimals. Integers limit the use of less than 1in/min, and would only allow 1 inch intervals between values, which is simply too much. I am using metric units, so personally I don't need the decimals, but not really care that they are there since they are not disturbing.

A_Camera wrote:CT63, feed rate I understand, but not spindle speed. Remember that the machines using UCCNC can run using imperial units as well, and some times you might need to use feed rates slower than 1in/min, which is 25.4mm/min. I am definitely using less than that for probing, and some times even for jogging, so if I used inches, I would like to have the ability to set even the decimals. Integers limit the use of less than 1in/min, and would only allow 1 inch intervals between values, which is simply too much. I am using metric units, so personally I don't need the decimals, but not really care that they are there since they are not disturbing.

I'm not saying UCCNC should change the software just looking for an DRO option for my screenset. The great thing about UCCNC is the ability to be customized if the end user desires. Honestly having a spindle DRO resolution to a 1/10 rpm when running at 14,000 rpm isn't very useful. One thought is make a separate probing DRO with the ability to display below 1 ipm (25.4mm/min).