ExcelCalcs Lego-Like Way to Engineering

Like a child selecting parts to construct a Lego model engineers bring together blocks of science to create new designs. These building blocks could be a load calculation, a beam calculation, a weld calculation, a fatigue calculation or any other calculation from a myriad of engineering topics. As...

iPhone, Android and Mobile Device Access

The site is optimised for browsing on mobile devices like the iPhone or Android phones. To create a web app icon browse to http://www.excelcalcs.com/navigate/ and ‘Add to Home Screen’. You will find an icon much like an app icon on your home screen which will bring you straight back...

ExcelCalcs Trailblazers

I have been chasing up feedback from new users signing up to XLC Pro accounts in the last month. I am delighted with their positive feedback. “I started using XLC but I am now insisting that my whole team use the add-in .“ “It is a great tool for validation and pres...

Increasing Engineering Confidence

Engineering training - “I run a team of engineers and whilst there are plenty of soft options for training expounding the latest management techniques there is precious little to develop the engineering skills of my team”. This is a familiar story we hear from clients of our trai...

Join our Corporate Partners Scheme

You are probably familiar with our tools of mass knowledge distribution on our website but ExcelCalcs also works more closely with corporate partners providing engineering training and engineering consultancy services. What’s more these services and ExcelCalcs subscriptions are availa...

Introducing ExcelCalcs eFormulas

ExcelCalcs eFormulas aims to replace traditional engineering formula books providing innovative functionality to copy from our webpages and paste directly into Excel. Once in Excel it is easily edited to suit your own problems this functionality is far more flexible than 'stuck on the web'&n...

Deciphering Spreadsheets with XLC

At some time or other you will have been given someone else’s spreadsheet only to be left scratching your head not having a clue as to what the calculation is doing. If you are wise you will not use it because you can’t understand it. If you are wiser still you’ll use our...

Make Amazing Calculations

In our good calculation guide we emphasise the importance of sketches in calculations but you can produce interactive 3D wireframe sketches by incorporating Turan Babacan’s latest upload. Turan uses 3D charts to great effect in his Excel FEM programs. Andy Pope also has a 3D chart spr...

Coming Soon XLC Ribbon

A new version of XLC is in the final stages of development which will be compatible with the 64 bit version of Excel 2010 (currently it works with the 32 bit version of Excel 2010, 2007 2003 and 2000). We’ll keep you posted with progress. Please send us details of any features you ...

Deciphering Spreadsheets with XLC

Deciphering Spreadsheets with XLC At some time or other you will have been given someone else’s spreadsheet only to be left scratching your head not having a clue as to what the calculation is doing. If you are wise you will not use it because you can’t understand it. If you are wiser still you’ll use our XLC software to render cell formulae into easily readable mathematical equations. Only when you are assured that the calculation method is correct can you use it with conviction.

XLC renders equations in just a few mouse clicks and can be used with single cells or cells arranged in a table. A free non-commercial version of the software is available by signing up for a trial subscription and you can re-subscribe on the trial subscription as many times as you like. We are grateful to users who support us with a paid subscription they get a license to use the software commercially and access to our repository of Excel solutions to engineering problems.

Thanks for your Referrals

We keep an eye on the proportion of new registrants that take up a paid subscription and we are pleased to report that the 2011 rate is more than double the 2010 take up rate. We have also seen a similar increase in referrals from friends so maybe there is a direct correlation here? Anyway we are delighted - user growth drives a virtuous circle yielding more shared content and better service.

Excel tips

Showing units in Excel calculations can sometimes look a little messy and not like what we would see in a text book (for example units of area shown as mm^2). Superscripting characters can be done by formatting text but Excel loses formatting information quite easily (for example if you refer to the cell in a cell formula). In our XLC calculation template we use some useful special characters which look superscripted but are actually normal characters. Finding the characters can be a little troublesome so just copy and paste them from below.

mm² mm³ mm⁴ °C