Category Archives: Excel

py_RC Elastic 1.04 and fatigue to AS 3600

Posted on 06/08/2025 by dougaj4

The py_RC Elastic spreadsheet (last discussed here) has been updated with a new function py_Fatigue3600, providing design for fatigue to the latest AS 3600 concrete structures code. The new spreadsheet and associated Python code can be downloaded from: py_RC Elastic.zip … Continue reading →

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Importing text files with Python and pyxll

Posted on 02/08/2025 by dougaj4

VBA code to import text files to Excel was presented at Importing text files with VBA – 2 and following posts. We now look at Python code for a user defined function (UDF) for the same task. The code requires Python … Continue reading →

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Plotting Carlyle’s Circle with Matplotlib in Excel

Posted on 25/07/2025 by dougaj4

Recently I happened to read of Carlyle’s Circle, which is a circle that has two intersection points with a parabola on the X axis. See the Wikipedia article for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_circle This post looks at the options for plotting … Continue reading →

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Upgrading plotly (to 6.9.1)

Posted on 19/07/2025 by dougaj4

Today I found that some of my plotly functions were not working, and re-loading the pyxll files returned the message “could not import PySide6.Qtgui pyside6”. Searching for this problem I found: After upgrading PySide6 gives error No module named ‘PySide6.QtWidgets’ … Continue reading →

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3DFrame-py rel. 0.50

Posted on 14/07/2025 by dougaj4

Following the recent post on the Python lru_cache function (Python functools and the Fibonacci Sequence) I have had a look at using lru_cache in the 3DFrame-py spreadsheet. So far using lru_cache in this code has provided little to no speed improvement, … Continue reading →

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