Category Archives: UDFs

ConBeamU 4.05 and ConBeampy 1.02

Posted on 15/07/2015 by dougaj4

The latest update of the two continuous beam spreadsheets can be downloaded from: ConBeamU.zip ConBeampy.zip The main changes are: A problem with point loads applied exactly at a support position has been corrected A function has been added to evaluate … Continue reading →

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New and updated links

Posted on 12/07/2015 by dougaj4

I have just updated my Blogroll, with 9 new links, and a couple of updates: Colin Caprani’s site is now back on-line I have updated the link to Jon Peltier’s blog dataprose.org was the source of many of the new links, … Continue reading →

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Conbeam – Python version

Posted on 24/06/2015 by dougaj4

I have converted the continuous beam analysis spreadsheet (last presented here) to Python code, linked to Excel VBA User Defined Functions (UDFs) with ExcelPython.  To run the Python version you will need an installed copy of Python, including Numpy and … Continue reading →

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Dealing with dates 3: opening and saving csv files without data corruption

Posted on 11/06/2015 by dougaj4

This post makes use of a spreadsheet for reading data from text files, including comma separated value (csv) files.  The latest version includes a routine for saving the imported data in csv format.  It can be downloaded (including full open-source … Continue reading →

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Dealing with dates 2: Getting cell data type and format code

Posted on 08/06/2015 by dougaj4

When working with imported data, or data from an opened csv file, it is often important to know the data type that has been used to store the data.  This may not be obvious, for instance in the previous post we … Continue reading →

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