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Arcs and arc-splines
I have added two user defined functions (UDFs) to the IP2 spreadsheet to generate coordinates for a single arc, or a series of arcs connected (if necessary) by straight lines. The new version may be downloaded from: IP2.zip As an example … Continue reading
New Tricks …
… or in some cases, old but forgotten tricks. The first comes from a Quora question, asking for the most underutilised feature in Excel. When de-bugging a VBA routine you can set a break point where the code will stop: … Continue reading
VBA vs Power Query vs Python
A recent post at Chandoo’s Excel Forum asked for a formula to extract all pairs of digits from a number with 4 digits. This was soon extended to dealing with longer numbers, and the examples looked at here will work with … Continue reading
Posted in Arrays, Excel, Link to Python, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged Chandoo, Excel, itertools, Power Query, Python, UDF, VBA, xlwings
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Units and solvers with Pint and Sympy
Following the previous post I have adapted the units code to use the Pint package, and added a function using the Sympy equation solver, with Pint units. I have applied the functions to finding the depth of neutral axis of a … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Concrete, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged Evaluate text, evaluate units, Excel, Pint, Python, Solve text, Sympy, UDF, unit aware, Units, VBA, xlwings
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Working with units in Excel – using VBA and Python
One of the most frequent reasons given for not using Excel for engineering and scientific applications is its very limited facilities for dealing with calculations involving units. It is possible to overcome this deficiency with VBA (see Daily Download 24: … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged evaluate text strings, Excel, Python, Sympy, UDFs, Unyt, VBA, xlwings
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