Tag Archives: UDFs

3D plots with the latest Matplotlib

Posted on 30/09/2022 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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Pint, MPmath and implied units, working with Excel

Posted on 30/04/2022 by dougaj4

Spreadsheets linking to the Python Pint and MPmath libraries have been presented here before at: Units and solvers with Pint and Sympy mpmath for Excel I have now updated the spreadsheet to work with pyxll, and with some new functions and … Continue reading →

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3D Matplotlib Plots in Excel

Posted on 17/04/2022 by dougaj4

As well as Excel, the code shown in this post requires current versions of Python, Numpy, Matplotlib, and pyxll. The required import statements at the head of the Python code are: The spreadsheets and Python code described below may be … Continue reading →

Posted in Charts, Charts, Coordinate Geometry, Drawing, Excel, Link to Python, Newton, NumPy and SciPy, PyXLL, UDFs | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Display Matplotlib animations in Excel

Posted on 28/02/2022 by dougaj4

The latest version of pyxll (5.4.0) allows animations generated in Matplotlib to be simply copied to Excel. A spreadsheet with the examples shown below, and the associated Python code can be downloaded from: Animations2.zip The screenshot below shows the simple … Continue reading →

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Contour plots with Excel and Matplotlib

Posted on 28/12/2021 by dougaj4

Contour plots are widely used for a great variety of purposes, but facilities for producing them in Excel are very limited, and those that are provided are very well hidden. In this post I will look at some simple examples … Continue reading →

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