The modules physically won't fit. American optical tables have screw holes with 1 inch spacing and some imperial thread, whereas the rest of the world has 25 mm spacing with M6 threads. Having to manually fiddle with the pattern sort of defeats the purpose.
Late reply but I hadn't considered that, it's an interesting problem, it might be worthwhile to just buy a second American-standard optical table, if the cost is only a few thousand dollars, and most of the money is spent on other hardware and labor, assuming this software actually saves anyone any time.
Then again, this is coming from a guy who had to call nearly every fastener supplier in a country in order to source a specific kind of countersunk UNC screw to fit foreign hardware he ordered. That still stings.
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The modules physically won't fit. American optical tables have screw holes with 1 inch spacing and some imperial thread, whereas the rest of the world has 25 mm spacing with M6 threads. Having to manually fiddle with the pattern sort of defeats the purpose.
Late reply but I hadn't considered that, it's an interesting problem, it might be worthwhile to just buy a second American-standard optical table, if the cost is only a few thousand dollars, and most of the money is spent on other hardware and labor, assuming this software actually saves anyone any time.
Then again, this is coming from a guy who had to call nearly every fastener supplier in a country in order to source a specific kind of countersunk UNC screw to fit foreign hardware he ordered. That still stings.