Category Archives: VBA

Frame4 – with intermediate beam results

Posted on 11/09/2012 by dougaj4

Back in March 2010, in response to this post with an update of the Frame4 spreadsheet: https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/frame4-xls-update2/ jscott (and later mettrox) asked if I had thought about adding output of the member forces at intervals along the member length, to which the response … Continue reading →

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Continuous Beam Spreadsheet – with Units

Posted on 06/09/2012 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet previously known as Macaulay has been updated to include “unit aware” versions of all the included functions, and has been renamed “ConBeamU”, to make it more obvious what it does.  The new spreadsheet (including full opens source code) can be … Continue reading →

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When is an XY chart not an XY chart …?

Posted on 05/09/2012 by dougaj4

… and whan is a blank cell not a blank cell? To answer the first one, create a simple XY chart, with a single data range of 7 rows, with a blank row in the middle.  This should display as two … Continue reading →

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Units for Excel 5:

Posted on 28/08/2012 by dougaj4

Previous post on Units for Excel Download spreadsheet: Units4Excel.zip I have posted a new update of the Units4Excel spreadsheet for download (link above).  The main changes are: The ConvertA and ConvertA2 functions have been combined. The ToSI and FromSI functions have been deleted, … Continue reading →

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Cantilevers with shear deflections

Posted on 24/08/2012 by dougaj4

At the end of last year I updated the Macaulay spreadsheet to include shear deflections for continuous beams, but this facility was not added to the Cantilever function.  That has now been fixed in the latest version, that can be … Continue reading →

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