Tag Archives: Excel

February Links

Posted on 16/02/2017 by dougaj4

Two new links with valuable free resources: .net and office automation follies : including many advanced VBA resources.  Thanks to Alfred Vachris for the link. AET VBE Tools : Tools for the Visual Basic editor from Andrew Engwirda (via Daily Dose of … Continue reading →

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Debugging with xlwings and PyCharm

Posted on 26/01/2017 by dougaj4

The xlwings documentation covers de-bugging, but it is very brief and it took me some time to get everything working, so this article covers the process in a bit more detail.  The details are affected by the editor being used, … Continue reading →

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The Conjugate Beam Method

Posted on 20/01/2017 by dougaj4

The Conjugate Beam Method is a variation of the Moment-Area Method that allows beam slopes and deflections to be calculated purely from the calculation of shear forces and bending moments of the beam with (in some cases) modified support conditions.  Both methods were … Continue reading →

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3D Frame analyses with spring releases – 2

Posted on 04/01/2017 by dougaj4

The latest version of the 3DFrame spreadsheet (previously presented here) includes provision for spring end releases, allowing for either rotational or translational springs in any direction.  These springs are now incorporated in the model by adjustment of the beam properties, … Continue reading →

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Transferring and converting strings in Excel and Python

Posted on 26/12/2016 by dougaj4

The load table for the 3D Frame spreadsheet has a column listing the global axis for each load as text (X, Y, or Z).  In the VBA version the table is converted to a variant array, and the axes are handled … Continue reading →

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