Category Archives: Coordinate Geometry

3D plots with the latest Matplotlib

Posted on 30/09/2022 by dougaj4

Installing Python on a new computer, I found I had to downgrade Matplotlib to release 3.5.2 to get my 3D plotting functions to work. Further investigation found that the problem was the Axes3D function. Changing:     ax = axes3d.Axes3D(fig)to: … Continue reading →

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Installing Python and pyxll from scratch

Posted on 26/09/2022 by dougaj4

Updated 28th September 2022. Matplotlib latest version OK. I recently installed Python and pyxll (plus the required additional libraries) on a new computer, which raised a few problems with incompatible versions, so here is a summary of what worked (as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Arrays, Charts, Coordinate Geometry, Differential Equations, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, Numerical integration, NumPy and SciPy, Python Pandas, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

3D Matplotlib Plots in Excel

Posted on 17/04/2022 by dougaj4

As well as Excel, the code shown in this post requires current versions of Python, Numpy, Matplotlib, and pyxll. The required import statements at the head of the Python code are: The spreadsheets and Python code described below may be … Continue reading →

Posted in Charts, Charts, Coordinate Geometry, Drawing, Excel, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

VBA procedures for the Numerical Analysis of Tabular Functions

Posted on 12/03/2022 by dougaj4

Long time on-line friend Alfred Vachris has recently been converting Fortran code developed through his working career into VBA: I had the opportunity to work at Grumman while going to Graduate School and they gave me a part-time job as … Continue reading →

Posted in Coordinate Geometry, Curve fitting, Excel, Fortran, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

SectionProperties update 3

Posted on 09/02/2022 by dougaj4

The SectionProperties spreadsheets previously posted had limited graphics capabilities due to problems with the plotting routines causing Excel to crash. I have now fixed that problem by updating some Python libraries with pip: installing mkl-service numpy 1.21.2 -> 1.22.1 Pillow … Continue reading →

Posted in Beam Bending, Charts, Charts, Coordinate Geometry, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments