Tag Archives: UDF

xlSciPy – Python SciPy for Excel; Update with new functions

Posted on 04/01/2016 by dougaj4

The xlSciPy spreadsheet, previously described here, has been updated with new functions for integration, finding equation roots and maxima and minima, solving systems of non-linear equations, and evaluation of equations entered as text.  The new version (including full open-source VBA … Continue reading →

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Worksheetfunction.Transpose – changed behaviour in Excel 2013 and 2016

Posted on 01/01/2016 by dougaj4

It is (fairly) well known that when using Worksheetfunction.Transpose on an array in VBA the array must be no more than 65,536 (2^16) rows long, or it will return an error. Recently when using Excel 2016 (32 bit) I thought … Continue reading →

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ConBeamU 4.08

Posted on 29/11/2015 by dougaj4

The continuous beam spreadsheet has had another update to fix a problem when point loads were applied to cantilevers, and the first support position was not listed as an output point.  The new version (4.08) can be downloaded from: ConbeamU.zip … Continue reading →

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Importing Text Files; Unix Format

Posted on 10/11/2015 by dougaj4

Text files generated on Unix systems have a different convention to denote the ends of lines to that used on Dos/Windows systems (see Newline for more details).  This was causing problems with the Text-in2 spreadsheet, with small files being imported with … Continue reading →

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Solving non-linear equations with two or more unknowns – 5

Posted on 20/10/2015 by dougaj4

This will be the last of the series on solving non-linear equations (for now).  Up until now all the examples have had two unknown values, and two target values.  This can be extended by making three changes to the code: … Continue reading →

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