Tag Archives: UDF

AS 3600 and RC Design Functions 8.01

Posted on 13/11/2018 by dougaj4

The updated RC Design Functions spreadsheet (presented here) included an updated UMom function to find the ultimate strength of a rectangular section under combined bending and axial load; but I omitted to include the revisions to the alpha2 and Gamma … Continue reading →

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Arcs and arc-splines

Posted on 17/08/2018 by dougaj4

I have added two user defined functions (UDFs) to the IP2 spreadsheet to generate coordinates for a single  arc, or a series of arcs connected (if necessary) by straight lines.  The new version may be downloaded from: IP2.zip As an example … Continue reading →

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New Tricks …

Posted on 16/08/2018 by dougaj4

… or in some cases, old but forgotten tricks. The first comes from a Quora question, asking for the most underutilised feature in Excel. When de-bugging a VBA routine you can set a break point where the code will stop: … Continue reading →

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VBA vs Power Query vs Python

Posted on 04/08/2018 by dougaj4

A recent post at Chandoo’s Excel Forum asked for a formula to extract all pairs of digits from a number with 4 digits.  This was soon extended to dealing with longer numbers, and the examples looked at here will work with … Continue reading →

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Units and solvers with Pint and Sympy

Posted on 29/07/2018 by dougaj4

Following the previous post I have adapted the units code to use the Pint package, and added a function using the Sympy equation solver, with Pint units.  I have applied the functions to finding the depth of neutral axis of a … Continue reading →

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