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Using Flash Fill
There have been several posts here on using functions or user defined functions (UDFs) to extract text or numbers from a longer string (most recently, here), but for many purposes it is quicker and easier to use the “flash-fill” feature, … Continue reading
Posted in Excel, UDFs, VBA
Tagged Excel, Extract number from string, ExtractNums UDF, flash-fill
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Working with implied units – update
Following comments at Eng-Tips I have added two examples with different procedures for evaluating ACI equations for the flexural tensile strength of concrete here.
Posted in Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged ACI 318, Customary US Units, Eval, EvalU, Evaluate text, Excel, Implied units, shear capacity, SI Units, UDF, Units aware, Units4Excel, VBA
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Using Alglib least-squares solvers
Following the last post on using the Python version of Alglib from Excel, via xlwings, this post looks in more detail at alternatives for fitting a non-linear function to a set of data, using the Levenberg-Marquardt method. The spreadsheet with … Continue reading
Posted in AlgLib, Curve fitting, Excel, Link to Python, Maths, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, UDFs, VBA, xlwings
Tagged AlgLib, Excel, Levenberg Marquardt, lsfit, minlm, Numpy, Python, SciPy, UDF, VBA, xlwings
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Working with implied units
The Units4Excel spreadsheet provides a number of functions to convert between different units and evaluate functions entered as text on the spreadsheet, taking account of the units of both the inputs and the results. The latest version can be downloaded from: … Continue reading
Posted in Concrete, Excel, Maths, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged ACI 318, Customary US Units, Eval, EvalU, Evaluate text, Excel, Implied units, shear capacity, SI Units, UDF, Units aware, Units4Excel, VBA
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Stepping through 3DFrame
Following a recent comment this post looks at the code for setting up the stiffness matrix for a 3D frame, and how to step through any selected part of the code. The general procedure for setting up a 3D stiffness matrix, … Continue reading
Posted in Beam Bending, Excel, Finite Element Analysis, Frame Analysis, Newton, UDFs, VBA
Tagged 3DFrame, Debugging UDFs, Debuging VBA, Excel, UDF, VBA
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