Category Archives: UDFs

Automating Goal Seek with RC Design Functions

Posted on 29/05/2016 by dougaj4

As promised in the previous post, I will now look in more detail at the process for automating the Excel Goal Seek function with the RC Design Functions spreadsheet, to calculate reinforcement area or section depth for a range of bending … Continue reading →

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RC Design Functions update

Posted on 21/05/2016 by dougaj4

Following a comment here I have updated my RC Design Functions spreadsheet, which is available for free download (including full open-source code) from: RC Design Functions7.zip The main new features in the latest version are: The existing optional “depth” argument has … Continue reading →

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What-when-how …

Posted on 19/05/2016 by dougaj4

… is a web site offering free tutorials on a wide range of subjects, including finite element analysis and VBA. The basics of finite element analysis are covered by links from: Computational Modelling (Finite Element Method) with more advanced material covered … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy 1.7

Posted on 17/04/2016 by dougaj4

Following recent posts on xlwings 0.7.1, dictionaries, and optional arguments and xlwings – dataframes and statistics, I have added the associated functions and examples to the xlwSciPy spreadsheet, and also updated it to xlwings 0.71. The new spreadsheet can be … Continue reading →

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xlwings – dataframes and statistics

Posted on 12/04/2016 by dougaj4

Another data conversion option offered by the latest xlwings release is Pandas dataframes and dataseries.  This post will look at how to pass an Excel range as a dataframe or dataseries in a User Defined Function (UDF), and some simple … Continue reading →

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