Scott,
I learned a long time ago I can’t please all the people all the time so I try to please most of the people most of the time. Most (99.x%) of the people don’t want to read extra digits when they are not needed and with the control I’m using, I do not have the ability to let the user specify the number of digits. I do have a suggestion, though.
I’m a big believer in optimizing the summary, allowing me to cut multiple rows with the same board width. It takes only seconds to remove the wood at the lathe and it can dramatically speed the time it takes to cut segments. Perhaps in your case, you would only want to do it two rows at a time but even that will save a lot of time. When I do this, I simply increase the wall width by a fraction (.1” in your case) and I have never run into an instance where the wasn’t enough wood to create my desired wall profile.
If this isn’t going to work for you, Woodturner PRO is the program that lets you do whatever you want to do. As I continually say, Segment PRO is targeted to build ‘standard’ segmented bowls with a minimal user interface.
I am moving towards a process that will let you export a Segment PRO design to be opened in Woodturner PRO. While this sounds like it should be simple, it isn’t. There is almost no similarity between the two programs as to how the data is used or saved. However, it won’t be the hardest thing I’ve done and it would be a great feature so I intend to do it. I can’t promise a time, though. Since the AAW Symposium is in my home town (Portland) this June, I’m am very involved from my turning clubs in helping with it and I’m on the board of Segmented Woodturners with a LOT of responsibilities for the October symposium. Still, I’ll try to carve out some time to do it. I don’t want to use a consultant because they would have to work with two different code bases in different programming languages.
I can simplify it by having the first iteration create the bowl with all the properties except the individual painting of segments. Since that should be 90% of the effort, though, it would be a good place to start.