Tag Archives: Python

More on combined shear and bending design to AS 3600

Posted on December 15, 2022 by dougaj4

Further to the last post on this subject I have been looking at procedures to speed up design for shear to AS 3600 when the “refined” analysis procedure is used. The issues that need to be addressed are: I have … Continue reading →

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Latex Maths Text in Excel

Posted on November 27, 2022 by dougaj4

There have been many posts here looking at alternative ways of working with functions entered as text on a spreadsheet, and working with units, most recently here. One drawback with this approach is that text in an Excel cell must … Continue reading →

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Linking to Python help from Excel

Posted on November 6, 2022 by dougaj4

The py_Numpy spreadsheet presented in the previous post has been updated: The new version can be downloaded from: py_Numpy.zip As before, the pyxll add-in is required for the connection from Excel to Python. All the available functions are listed on … Continue reading →

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Working with Python polynomials from Excel

Posted on October 22, 2022 by dougaj4

Python polynomial functions have several features that require manipulation of data passed from Excel: I have written 3 short Python functions to deal with passing arrays of complex numbers from and to Excel, using pyxll, or within Python code to … Continue reading →

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3D plots with the latest Matplotlib

Posted on September 30, 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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