Category Archives: Excel

Making Finite Element Analysis go faster – Update and PyPardiso

Posted on 17/10/2021 by dougaj4

The previous post on this topic looked at the performance of alternative Scipy sparse equation solvers. This post updates those results with the current Scipy version (1.7.1), with very different results. It also compares the Scipy solver performance with the … Continue reading →

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Upgrade to Python 3.10?

Posted on 13/10/2021 by dougaj4

Python 3.10 was released on October 4th, rapidly followed by a new release of pyxll (5.3.0), but the Anaconda site does not seem to have it yet, so is it time to upgrade or not. A search on that question … Continue reading →

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ConbeamU update

Posted on 28/09/2021 by dougaj4

I recently discovered that the continuous beam function from the ConbeamU spreadsheet was giving incorrect results for cantilevers at the left hand end, if the cantilever had more than one segment and no point loads. The corrected version (Rel 4.16) … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Newton, Strand7, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Fast Search Reminder

Posted on 30/08/2021 by dougaj4

A recent comment at Opening and searching pdf files from Excel reminded of the linked spreadsheet, which allows pdf files to be opened at a specified page from Excel, and also fast searches of the local hard drive: PdfLink.zip (free download … Continue reading →

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More on Numba

Posted on 15/08/2021 by dougaj4

Following my recent post Making Finite Element Analysis go faster … I have been having a closer look at the options in the Numba just-in-time compiler for improving the performance of Python code. The Numba docs include a series of short … Continue reading →

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