Category Archives: Maths

Using Section Properties- Group

Posted on 24/06/2018 by dougaj4

Following a recent comment I have updated the documentation for finding the section properties of groups of shapes in the Section-Properties-Group spreadsheet.  The revised file can be downloaded from: Section Properties07-Group.zip The screenshots below illustrate use of the Group function to … Continue reading →

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More Numpy with Excel and xlwings

Posted on 24/05/2018 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet presented in the last post on sorting also includes links to many other Numpy functions.  The spreadsheet and associated Python file can be downloaded from: xlNumpy.zip The Numpy functions require xlwings and Numpy to be installed, which are included in … Continue reading →

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IP2_py Update for Python3

Posted on 28/04/2018 by dougaj4

The spreadsheet IP2_py provides a large number of geometric functions, including intersection points of lines, circles and planes, interpolation, rotations, and converting between coordinate systems.  Many of the functions are available in VBA and Python versions.  The Python code has now … Continue reading →

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xlwSciPy update for Python 3

Posted on 09/04/2018 by dougaj4

The xlwSciPy spreadsheet allows a wide variety of the science and maths functions in the Python Numpy and Scipy libraries to be called directly from Excel.  The spreadsheet has now been updated for use with Python 3.  The spreadsheet and … Continue reading →

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More circle fitting options with Scipy

Posted on 17/03/2018 by dougaj4

A comment on the first post on this topic found that the method used did not work well for short arcs of large radius circles.  An example of the problem can be seen in the screen shots below: The function … Continue reading →

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