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I know it stands for 'distance to go', but what does that mean? What does it do? It seems to always show 0.0000.

Seems to be just taking up screen realestate?

Distance to the end of the current move. Depending on the type of work you do, you have have many small movements, so it appears to always be close to 0.

Distance To Go.

cncdrive wrote:Distance To Go.

Ha ha. I appreciate you answering, but... did you read my post?

ger21 wrote:Distance to the end of the current move. Depending on the type of work you do, you have have many small movements, so it appears to always be close to 0.

Thanks Ger.

In my attempt to customise my gui, I'm getting rid of superfluous buttons and boxes that I don't need. Would it be OK to remove those DTG panels?

I'm only a 3 axis hobbyist.

It is a very handy feature.
The purpose of it is that when programming movements you know how much more the axes will move.
For example your X is at 0 and you programming G1 X100 and the X axis starts moving and without the DTG you can have no idea how much the axis will move and how much distance is left to go.
With the DTG with the above mentioned scenario you will see the DTG DRO counting down from 100 to 0, so you know how much movement to left and so you do not have to worry if the axis will hit something or not, because you know exactly how much more distance the axis will.
So, this function is really helpful and practical.